David Grann Quotes
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I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.
Rachel Keller -
I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.
Caity Lotz -
These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
Mal Peet -
I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
Samuel Barber -
I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.
Kate Bush
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If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis that there's always next week.
Laura Robson -
I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
Sally Quinn -
I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.
Daniel Craig -
Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
Daley Thompson -
The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.
Camille Paglia -
You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.
Taylor Swift
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'3 Idiots' was remade in various languages down south, but it wasn't successful anywhere because the magic was created by Aamir Khan and Rajkumar Hirani.
Ram Charan -
I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
I hate that stupid old pickup truckYou never let me drive.You're a redneck heartbreakWho's really bad at lying.So watch me strike a matchOn all my wasted time.As far as I'm concerned you'reJust another picture to burn.
Taylor Swift -
Their support was not needed, therefore they were not courted.
Anthony Trollope -
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and had better come first. Purity means singleness. God is one. The Wand is not a Wand if it has something sticking to it which is not an essential part of itself. If you wish to invoke Venus, you do not succeed if there are traces of Saturn mixed up with it.
Aleister Crowley -
In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish-that is their strength.
Anton Chekhov
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I want to put expectations on our team that are high. That's kind of the way I've always been, and I want to put those expectations on our team as well.
Blake Griffin -
My parents taught me that work ethic is one of the most important keys in life, and I believe it.
Kendall Jenner -
Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity are what men detest; but unless prosperity be brought about in the right way, they are not to be abandoned.
Confucius -
I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie.
Joel Edgerton -
I feel like we've had a front row seat for the last 20 years to watching culture and youth.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories.
David Grann