Dashiell Hammett Quotes
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I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.
Vincent Cassel -
I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
Rachel Platten -
Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
Frances Conroy -
I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!
Wayne Knight -
The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
Kapil Sibal -
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Bronowski
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
Iain Banks -
You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
Oriana Fallaci -
Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.
Ted Nugent -
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. Henry
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
Wendell Berry -
I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
Kacy Catanzaro -
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Carl Sandburg -
You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
Barry Jenkins -
If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
Tadashi Yanai -
Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
Mahesh Babu
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My parents' generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Everybody knew something that they could do - a song or a poem, or a piece of music. At school, I remember being a cat and then a budgie and then a bumble bee. I obviously thought all that was marvelous.
Lindsay Duncan -
Every major feature of the modern United States—from racial equality to Social Security, from the Pentagon to the suburb—represents a repudiation of Jeffersonianism.
Bernard Bailyn -
The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfer of science and technology and progress of the nations of our region.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
I was a street performer for two years.
Bernie Mac -
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika -
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
Dashiell Hammett