David Lehman Quotes
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.David Lehman
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
Camila Alves -
I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
Ed Speleers -
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Edmund Burke -
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
J. Paul Getty -
But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
Laura Prepon -
There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
J. H. Wyman
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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
Gary Lineker -
It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.
Jack Zipes -
It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
Jacki Weaver -
The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
K. D. Lang -
When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
Katey Sagal
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
Zac Efron -
'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
Jack Keane -
A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.
Aaron Sorkin -
I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
Olivia Wilde -
I started wearing high heels when I first worked with Mario Testino. He is tall; I had to be at his height. And I have never stopped since then.
Carine Roitfeld -
I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
Irving Penn
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Our research centres are everywhere, in India, China, Turkey, Japan, and we all work as a team all the time.
Pranav Mistry -
You don't get to choose what your legacy is.
John Hickenlooper -
If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal.
Ernest Becker -
Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.
Karen Armstrong -
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.
David Lehman