Mark Kurlansky Quotes
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
Natalie Dormer -
My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
J. Tillman -
My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
Ferdinand Marcos -
The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
Ilana Glazer -
In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
Randeep Hooda -
I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
Ted Williams
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I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
Randa Haines -
I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
Cameron Winklevoss -
Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
Ireland Baldwin -
When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
C. Everett Koop -
You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.
Aaron Eckhart
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I was a big fan of the Tim Burton films. I really liked the character. And I remember thinking the Batmobile was very cool.
Sam Heughan -
It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
Mac Davis -
Between 12 and 14, I shot up a ridiculous amount. The muscles were struggling to stretch and grow at the rate my bones were growing. It gave me problems with my back and my hamstrings.
Gareth Bale -
I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.
Abigail Washburn -
I'm a travel enthusiast.
Iggy Pop -
I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.
Dan Rosensweig
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I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them.
Ansel Adams -
Oh, I think Janie Bryant is a genius. I mean, I think she changed menswear almost single-handedly with what she did on 'Mad Men.'
Matt Bomer -
The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy.
Deborah Eisenberg -
I have been doing this [acting] for a really long time, so I've come to expect things to take a really long time. You get to a place where you do your job and then you dust your hands off and say, "Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens." There's nothing I can do to affect it.
Sam Huntington -
You may not be like everyone else, but that's okay. Be who God made you to be.
Victoria Osteen -
As with wine, geography affects the flavor. Oysters are usually named for a locale.
Mark Kurlansky