Felix Dennis Quotes
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
Imran Amed -
I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
Patrick deWitt -
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
Isaac Barrow -
I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.
Harriet Walter -
The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
Uri Geller -
Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
Harry Anderson
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It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
E. T. A. Hoffmann -
There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.
Gary Ross -
I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.
Anton Zaslavski -
I'm definitely post-something.
Salman Rushdie -
I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a film adaptation of that game, you've just Xeroxed something twice. I think that's where a lot of the criticism comes from - there are ultra-violent games that are already based on a million films.
Edgar Wright -
No matter what you do, you're going to have people who have something to say about something you do. You can't please anybody.
Jason Aldean
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Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.
Kevin Spacey -
According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway.
Igor Sikorsky -
Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.
Laini Taylor -
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Wendell Phillips -
Affirm it, visualize it, believe it and it will actualize itself.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
Nearly all Bolshevist agitators in Germany and elsewhere were Jews.
Adolf Hitler -
False praise is worse than no praise.
Felix Dennis