Dawn French Quotes
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
G. Willow Wilson -
There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
Randi Weingarten -
We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
Octavia E. Butler -
It's nice not to be too boring.
Barry Pepper -
The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
Gary Bettman
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
A. R. Ammons -
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Napoleon Hill -
I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
Laura Wasser -
I don't feel closeted.
Adam Lambert -
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel -
There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
Laura Miller
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.
J. Cole -
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Baltasar Gracian -
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
Aaron Copland -
I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
Harlan Coben -
Acting's boring.
Ian McShane
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There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.
John Galliano -
The biggest mistake in my life was hiring Eaton as chairman without checking him out first, ... I didn't know him and hired the wrong guy, an error of judgment. When you make a bad people choice it hurts a lot of people for a long time.
Lee Iacocca -
I like Jodie Foster and then Meryl Streep. They're just, like, the greatest ever.
Elle Fanning -
You've got to have faith. You've got to begin to continue to hope and not give up on others.
Alveda King -
All we wanted to do was to make live records all available. For us, the idea is to make it all available and let people decide which ones they like better. It's not for us to decide. We don't care about that. What we're interested in is the idea that we made these recordings, and they're not doing anybody a damn bit of good sitting in a closet.
Ian MacKaye -
In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.
Dawn French