E. L. Doctorow Quotes
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.E. L. Doctorow
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
Madhuri Dixit -
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
Harrison Birtwistle -
I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.
Olga Kurylenko -
I feel quite excited about the possibility of working on multiple albums. There's something really iconic about having a catalog featuring a lot of albums, and I'd love to have that legacy.
Paloma Faith -
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
S. E. Hinton -
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
Ian Anderson
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
Walter Gropius -
I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
Wayne Gretzky -
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson -
Your mind is what makes everything else work.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.
Quavo Migos
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
Yami Gautam -
Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
Natasha Leggero -
I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
Patricia Polacco -
Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
Pat Paulsen -
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
E. M. Forster -
Let me tell you that I love the United States.
Vicente Fox
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Napoleon Hill -
I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want.
Sia LSD -
We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning - we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.
Jocko Willink -
'Shotgun Stories' and 'Take Shelter'... I was willing to make those with no money and no time. With 'Mud,' I just wanted to protect it until I could have the resources. It's a real tricky movie.
Jeff Nichols -
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
E. L. Doctorow