Chet Williamson Quotes
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Daniel Barenboim -
It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
Olivia Wilde -
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
Zadie Smith -
I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
Rafael dos Anjos -
You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
Ian Hacking
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
Sam Childers -
I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
Taylor Lautner -
Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
Sam Kean -
Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
Sally Mann
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You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.
Tanya Fischer -
The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.
Omar Bongo -
Acting was something I had to do.
Nancy Marchand -
Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
Octavia Spencer -
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
Ingmar Bergman -
I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.
Olivia Colman
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I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up at 6 A.M. and on a train to Birmingham to record 'The Archers'. It was pretty intense.
Felicity Jones -
Everybody could write, deejay, rap. Everybody could do it all.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.
Bill Condon -
Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.
Oscar Wilde -
Writing a novel that crosses genres is a risk, but one well worth taking.
Chet Williamson