William Faulkner Quotes
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
Basmah bint Saud -
I am not in politics to make more money.
Nandan Nilekani -
I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
Bayard Rustin -
You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
Adam McKay -
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright -
I make an awesome soup with coconut milk and shrimps; it takes me five hours to prepare the whole thing. It does become very spicy, but you can definitely taste all the ingredients.
Mads Mikkelsen
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
Karen Robards -
I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
Taylor Schilling -
My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
Damian Lewis -
That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
Barbara Hale -
I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
I. M. Pei -
A Russia that gradually begins to gravitate toward the West will also be a Russia that ceases to disrupt the international system.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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In France, where Franklin had lived from 1776 to 1785, he had won an extraordinary place in the public mind. The French had lionized him to the point of absurdity - or so at least his colleagues in the American mission thought.
Edmund Morgan -
For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
Karrine Steffans -
The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
Maggie Stiefvater -
If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.
Naoto Kan -
I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
Jackie Evancho -
If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.
Vanilla Ice
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What I realized is that it doesn't matter how big or small your film is. The actual filmmaking process, the actual storytelling, it's still the same thing. It's still all about creating characters that you like and creating moments that get you excited or get you tense.
James Wan -
Trying to be true to everyone doesn’t mean that you are good; It is complete stupidity
Vijay Sethupathi -
There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
Gail Simmons -
I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.
Jared Leto Thirty Seconds to Mars -
I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
John Irving -
The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
William Faulkner