Walter Savage Landor Quotes
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.Walter Savage Landor
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
Paddy Considine -
I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
M. J. Rose -
When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
Karl Ove Knausgaard -
It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
Rachel Platten -
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson -
I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
Radha Mitchell -
I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
Tabatha Coffey -
I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
Uzo Aduba -
The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
Rachel Cusk -
I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
Fiona Shaw -
I do not like violence.
Abdurrahman Wahid
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
Victoria Woodhull -
Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
Ian Watson -
Everybody has a story... and a scream.
Rachel Roberts -
You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
Ian Watson -
It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
Naftali Bennett
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I am one of those guys who could do the most emotional scene and crack a joke instantly. I'm lucky. I'm just like an idiot savant. I have one enormously enjoyable, pleasurable - for me - talent, which is being able to act.
James Woods -
Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.
Win Butler -
I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.
Elliot Page -
If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.
Kate Reardon -
Of course the shrieking desire for the scoop can get really strong, but so is the desire to safeguard connections and keep everyone happy.
Rachel Sklar -
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Walter Savage Landor