Marina Warner Quotes
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
Vanessa Redgrave -
The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
Samuel Gompers -
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
Barbara Sukowa -
I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
Yoon Ahn -
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
J. William Fulbright -
At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
Gary Oldman
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
Pamela Meyer -
The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
Karin Slaughter -
In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.
Victoria de los Angeles -
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
Ted Nugent -
I am formless and everywhere. I am in everything. I am in everything and beyond. I fill all space. All that you see, taken together, is Myself. I do not shake or move.
Sai Baba -
I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But all the good superheroes are claimed.
Taran Killam
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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
Nate Silver -
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
Samuel George Morton -
There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.
Parminder Nagra -
My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They're the ones who are selling the shoes to women.
Edgardo Osorio -
I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
Walt Whitman -
I wish people would shift that focus on to themselves and their own family and their own friends and just maybe spend a little more time on their home front. And not some distant planet that is me.
Charlie Sheen
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'When I was a child I dreamed of adventure, glory, honor in feats of arms. I think now that these things are shadows.''If you see them as shadows then you see them for what they are,' Annlaw agreed. 'Many have pursued honor, and in the pursuit lost more of it than ever they could gain.'
Lloyd Alexander -
The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.
Alfonso Cuaron -
Comics have always been storyboards.
Dave Morris -
Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.
William Peter Blatty -
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
Marina Warner