Mark Twain Quotes
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I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
Candace Bushnell -
When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.
Laura Spencer -
We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
Mahesh Babu -
Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
Dan Ariely -
I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
Imran Khan -
There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
Barton Gellman
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
Karen Elson -
Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
Patrick Demarchelier -
When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
Idris Elba -
I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
Jack Germond -
Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
Damon Galgut -
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
Salman Rushdie
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I love Costco.
Gary Johnson -
The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.
Yitzhak Shamir -
An overview of all wars since the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 suggests that most of them would have been greatly reduced in severity, or perhaps not even fought at all, without fiat money.
G. Edward Griffin -
I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.
Madchen Amick -
This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.
Vanilla Ice -
If I didn't have the wrestling name that I have, I wouldn't have gotten the financial contract that I got with Strikeforce or the long-term contract or the television contract. That's all because of wrestling.
Daniel Cormier
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I've always sung in the shower and I watched a lot of 'Rage' when I was young.
Tones and I -
I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
Harold Washington -
I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
J. K. Simmons -
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
Bat for Lashes -
I don't get sick. I can't afford to get sick.
Richie Havens -
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Mark Twain