Samuel Johnson Quotes
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.Samuel Johnson
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
Ed Smith -
When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
Malorie Blackman -
When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
Daniel Craig -
I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
Gary Frank -
I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
Barry Sonnenfeld -
You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
Yitzhak Rabin
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I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.
Radha Mitchell -
To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
Madison Smartt Bell -
My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
Gavin Andresen -
You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
Yami Gautam -
When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
Vanessa Paradis -
I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.
Maggie Grace
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
Walton Goggins -
When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
Tanc Sade -
Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.
Eden Hazard -
There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
Katey Sagal -
When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
Rachael Ray
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To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.
Carl Honore -
What we can control is our readiness.
Dan Quinn -
I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
Sammy Sosa -
Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
Ira Sachs -
I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.
Jackie Chan -
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson