Alec-Tweedie Quotes
Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.Alec-Tweedie
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
Rachel Cusk -
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
Irwin Shaw -
When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
Danica McKellar -
The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
Adam Draper -
Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
Maajid Nawaz -
A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.
Olivia Wilde
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This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.
Florence Kelley -
I love playing with makeup. Makeup has become a thing where it's an art form. It's not a thing where you use it because you need to feel beautiful or because you don't like the way you look.
Zendaya -
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. Milne -
Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
Orson Welles -
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
James Whistler -
Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
Bobby McFerrin
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No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.
Elizabeth Olsen -
I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.
Nelson DeMille -
It's not easy being the world's policeman. No one thanks you for it.
Philip Kerr -
Texas is made for trade.
Kevin Brady -
We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.
Antonio Banderas -
I am the only one who is not married among my siblings.
Andrea Hirata
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There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.
Jairam Ramesh -
I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.
Alan Arkin -
I think there's a responsibility of the publisher, of the company, to make sure the staple books that have been around for decades come out in a timely manner.
Jim Lee -
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.
Warwick Davis -
Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.
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