Lars von Trier Quotes
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
Lana Parrilla -
I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
Edie Campbell -
A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
Irving Thalberg -
I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
Gary Hamel -
Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
Naomi Wolf -
I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
Fatima Siad
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
Wendy Cope -
Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
Victoria Azarenka -
I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
Barbra Streisand -
A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
D. J. MacHale -
It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
Nancy Kerrigan -
I always knew I was destined for greatness.
Oprah Winfrey
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
Jack Bruce Cream -
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Ouida -
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant -
It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
Frances McDormand -
Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
Octavio Paz -
Freedom is never given; it is won.
A. Philip Randolph
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I was the one who was always calling people.
Nancy Reagan -
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke -
We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need.
Danica Patrick -
I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?
Dan Ariely -
It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.
John Cusack -
I always do something that I've never done before.
Lars von Trier