Ella Maillart Quotes
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I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
Edith Evans -
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
Sam Kean -
There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
Pat Oliphant -
The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
Dakota Johnson -
My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
Kat Dennings
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
Pamela Hansford Johnson -
Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
L. Neil Smith -
It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
Baldwin Spencer -
We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.
Mamata Banerjee -
The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I consider not what Parmenion should receive, but what Alexander should give.
Alexander the Great -
Κέρδιστον εὖ φρονοῦντα μὴ φρονεῖν δοκεῖν.
Aeschylus -
We loved Neil Young and all the music he's given the world.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd -
You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are a direct result of some tenant's poverty.
Matthew Desmond -
I was excited to turn 60.
Mary Steenburgen -
However long, it's definitely the presence of other people that brings out the weirdness - that collision of your own way of being with the everyday lives of others, the abrupt awareness - always a surprise no matter how often it's happened - that their lives are very different from your own.
Lynn Coady
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I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!
Christopher Eccleston -
News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.
Alfred Harmsworth -
Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.
Ivan Reitman -
When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John Gardner -
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
Ella Maillart