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• I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Family
  • Know
  • Immigrant

• Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • Stop
  • Learning

• I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Feeling
  • Face
  • Shoulders

• I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Relationship
  • Husband

• Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Yourself

• It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Life
  • Good
  • High

• Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.

  

  Carl Forti
  • World
  • Help
  • Him

• My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.

  

  K. Flay
  • Weird
  • Perspective
  • My Own

• I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Like
  • Loved
  • Because

• Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Strength

• Architecture begins where engineering ends.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Architecture
  • Engineering

• Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Power
  • Fear

• A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Crazy
  • Ignorant
  • Newspaper

• North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Poverty
  • Slavery
  • Rights

• Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Life
  • Real
  • May

• There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Interest
  • U.S.
  • Shock

• Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein of professors, it was just the best experience of my life. Adrien was the most influential mentor in my acting career thus far, and even after the movie he continues to mentor me.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Movie

• God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Guilt
  • Misery
  • Pale

• For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Me
  • Blessing
  • Evolution

• Don't let your upbringing, your surroundings, whatever situation you are living in, don't let those stop you from being the greatest you that you can be.

  

  Aquaria
  • Greatest
  • Surroundings
  • Upbringing

• I spent a night of watchfulness unto prayer, like Jacob, wrestling the whole night for the Lord's blessing, and towards morning the light of His countenance did very graciously arise upon me. My trust and confidence are renewed in Him, blessed and praised be His adorable name!

  

  Stephen Grellet
  • Trust
  • Blessed
  • Name

• If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Career
  • Way
  • Fairly

• Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Name
  • Greatest
  • Accident