H. Rap Brown Quotes
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
A. E. Housman -
Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
Natalia Makarova -
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden -
One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
Manny Farber -
I never thought I'd be an actor.
Zach LaVine -
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
Quentin Tarantino
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
Ziad Doueiri -
My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
Vicky McClure -
I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
Dane DeHaan -
I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
Tasha Smith -
We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
Ulrich Beck -
Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
Cameron Mackintosh
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The French complain of everything, and always.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Bad ballplayers make good managers.
Earl Weaver -
China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
Barbara Demick -
I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
Oprah Winfrey -
I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
Mal Peet -
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
T. S. Eliot
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If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals
C. S. Lewis -
Violence shouldn't be presented as drama. I think people looking for an easy way out often write scenes where characters come into violent conflict as opposed to looking for the true drama in the situation. That's a shortcoming of a lot of films and television shows. I think certain presentations of violence are not immoral, but amoral.
David Fincher -
Contract killings never get recorded as a woman killing a man.
Warren Farrell -
Well, if I could play like Wynton (Marsalis), I wouldn't play like Wynton.
Chet Baker -
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
Penn Jillette -
I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
H. Rap Brown