David Gemmell Quotes
If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.David Gemmell
Quotes to Explore
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
Walter Gropius -
There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
Idris Elba -
In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
Taya Kyle -
I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
R. Kelly -
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
W. C. Fields -
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.
Ian Anderson
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.
Garry Shandling -
People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
Damien Chazelle -
Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
Barbara Broccoli -
There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.
Edie Campbell -
I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.
Aaron Patzer
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I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama.
Adam McKay -
Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
Mao Zedong -
Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
Saint Teresa of Avila -
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
Saint Francis de Sales -
'American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings.
Kate Christensen -
My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don't deserve, if you will... that come at you early because the firms need you.
Hamilton E. James
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I am not comfortable at all with this tag of being dubbed 'the richest Indian' and all the attention that follows for the reason.
Dilip Shanghvi -
For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.
Chester Bennington Stone Temple Pilots -
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Oscar Wilde -
I don't party, I don't get drunk and I don't have affairs. So all my passion goes into my work.
Rani Mukerji -
In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.
Bobby Sherman -
If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.
David Gemmell