Daniel Tammet Quotes
I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.Daniel Tammet
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
Laura Lang -
Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
T-Pain -
Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
Karen Elson -
Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
Gary Sherman -
I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
Gale Harold -
I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
Zendaya
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
Naomi Wolf -
Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
Eduard Hanslick -
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot -
I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
Gary Hamel -
I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
Yasmine Al Masri -
I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
Gaby Hoffmann
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
Vince Vaughn
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I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
Yolanda Adams -
Unless you have experienced it, it's difficult to describe the virulence of the Twitter storms that were unleashed on Trump skeptics.
Charlie Sykes -
The best party I've ever attended in my life was courtesy of Marshall Mathers. There were basically six guys and 70 girls there.
Omar Benson Miller -
A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva -
I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.
Daniel Tammet