J. K. Simmons Quotes
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
D. B. Sweeney -
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
Orison Swett Marden -
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
Karl Popper -
It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
Laura Mvula -
A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
Ibrahim Babangida
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
Harrison Birtwistle -
There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
Ike Barinholtz -
Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
Bailey Chase -
For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
Carla Gugino -
I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
Laura Dern -
The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
Barton Gellman -
I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
Tamora Pierce -
When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.
Washed Out -
She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
Iggy Pop
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What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
Ian Mcewan -
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
Augustus Hare -
We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.
Nancy Meyers -
Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.
Maria Semple -
Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
J. K. Simmons