Dawn Powell Quotes
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.Dawn Powell
Quotes to Explore
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
Ed Westwick -
There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.
Kangana Ranaut -
I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
Daniel Bryan -
If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
G. Willow Wilson -
Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.
Ace Frehley Kiss
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My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
Kate McKinnon -
Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
Walter Kirn -
In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
Zoe Kazan -
In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
Olivia Wilde -
I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.
Otis Rush -
I can only focus on doing what's right.
Pam Bondi
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
Yoko Ono -
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
Wangari Maathai -
I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
Rakul Preet Singh -
The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
Patrick Lencioni -
I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.
Eddie Cibrian
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It's not easy to put a smile on people's faces.
Varun Dhawan -
My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That's the kind of place we lived in.
Takashi Murakami -
There's no map for you to follow and take your journey. You are Lewis and Clark. You are the mapmaker.
Phillipa Soo -
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.
C. S. Lewis -
It's kind of cool that I know of all this great science fiction being written in China, and most of it is not really well-known in the West.
Ken Liu -
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
Dawn Powell