David Mamet Quotes
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
Ted Danson -
I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
Ralph Brown -
All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
Isaac Hayes -
I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
Irina Shayk -
When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
Warren Christopher -
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
Laura Hillenbrand
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
Imran Amed -
But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.
Karlheinz Stockhausen -
I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
Kate Smith -
Winning, you can overlook so many things.
Abby Wambach -
My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
Quentin Tarantino -
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde
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Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
Irving Kirsch -
My life is better with every year of living it.
Rachel Maddow -
Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
Ian Watson -
I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.
Rafael Nadal -
If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
Sam Shepard -
I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.
Orhan Pamuk
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
Bernard Malamud -
I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
Kate Moss -
I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
Ted Allen -
I was really grateful to have a chance to have some really in-depth study about the power of language using a philosopher who taught at the University of Chicago by the name of Paul Ricoeur. I'm really happy to be in Chicago because a lot of what I do is rooted in his approach to language.
Blase J. Cupich -
But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.
Augusten Burroughs -
In Chicago, we love our crooks!
David Mamet