David Farr Quotes
You can't cast Hittites as Trojans; I'd love to do it, but sadly, there are none available!David Farr
Quotes to Explore
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At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation.
Walter Rudolf Hess -
If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
Wayne Swan -
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Iris Murdoch -
My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.
Nadia Comaneci -
I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
Samantha Morton -
There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view.
Sam Abell
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Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
Vicente Fox -
I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.
Samantha Shannon -
Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.
Gary Shteyngart -
I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
Tao Lin -
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.
Salma Hayek
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I've got Colin Firth's number in my phone!
Taron Egerton -
To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.
J. B. Pritzker -
I'd rather be involved and somebody say, 'Hey, coach, here's what I need you to do. Go down to the D-League and work with guys'... I want the D-League coach to learn how to be a head coach.
Larry Brown -
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Saint Augustine -
Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
Fernando Pessoa -
Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
Ramana Maharshi
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I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and I'd love to do some period pieces with classical text. I'd love somebody to cast me as Macbeth, but for a film. I just want to be all over the place.
Kevin Alejandro -
There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.
Tacitus -
We listen to so many different types of music, so it's easy for us to play a different genre or style and it be true to what we do.
Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band -
Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in your own hearts.
Nicholas Evans -
I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.
Haley Bennett -
You can't cast Hittites as Trojans; I'd love to do it, but sadly, there are none available!
David Farr