Floyd Skloot Quotes
Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.Floyd Skloot
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso -
I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
Naomie Harris -
I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
Sam Smith -
I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
Ian Frazier -
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
Hans Hofmann -
I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
Ian Mckellen
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
Naveen Jain -
Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
T. J. Miller -
Honesty is something you can't wear out.
Waylon Jennings -
If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
Yusuf Hamied -
An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
Carl Van Vechten -
In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.
Tcheky Karyo
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
Patrick Collison -
I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
Fatima Sana Shaikh -
Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
Rachel Platten -
I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
Tatyana Ali -
Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
Edgar Ramirez -
I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
Jack Vance
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I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.
Kim Alexis -
Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.
Byron Nelson -
The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.
Eric Bana -
We're kind of in the wild west, and, you know, it would be very difficult to run for president without raising a huge amount of money and without having other people supporting you because your opponent will have their supporters.
Hillary Clinton -
As an actor, you're lucky if you get a month before a project starts. There are times when you get a day before a project starts. So to be able to really sit and inhabit that mind and the story is really beneficial, and it really helps for me to be able to then compartmentalize as we're shooting and detach and go somewhere else.
Katie Aselton -
Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
Floyd Skloot