David Mamet Quotes
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In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
Camille Paglia -
Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
W. C. Fields -
I'm really not worried about what fans think.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.
Ian Somerhalder -
My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.
Kaley Cuoco
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I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.
Irina Shayk -
I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship.
Wang Jianlin -
Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.
Tara Lipinski -
You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an outcome you don't like. Look at Latin America in the Cold War.
Samantha Power -
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.
Harold H. Greene
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From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything.
Natalie Wood -
The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.
Salman Rushdie -
You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
Kamala Harris -
We have much work ahead, to stand still.
Said Musa -
The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.
Natalie Coughlin -
In the old days pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my case a picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture - then I destroy it. In the end though, nothing is lost: the red I took away from one place turns up somewhere else
Pablo Picasso
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Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
Anthony Trollope -
If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.
Albert Brooks -
As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.
Dan Webster -
There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority.
John Breaux -
The things we fear the most have already happened to us.
Robin Williams -
I'm not an ascetic.
David Mamet