Wendell Berry Quotes
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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 love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
Idris Elba -
I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
Mandy Moore -
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
F. H. Bradley -
Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
Pam Brown
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.
Taylor Hanson Hanson -
Mark Twain cannot be defined.
Hal Holbrook -
I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
Dana Schutz -
Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
Abraham Lincoln -
Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
Ed Oxenbould
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
Osman Baydemir -
Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
Wayne Newton -
If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.
Samantha Bond -
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
Lady Gaga -
It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
Barry Sanders
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I get really, really concerned when I see somebody, taking $600,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, will not release what they're actually saying. That's concerning.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.
Zola Budd -
When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.
H. Rap Brown -
My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
Patricia Highsmith -
I have never been much of a follower although I like to learn.
Barry Moltz -
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
Wendell Berry