Billy Bragg Quotes
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
Idries Shah -
I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
Ha-Joon Chang -
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
D. H. Lawrence -
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
Barbara Bush -
I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
Karin Slaughter
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
Natalie Portman -
Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
E. L. James -
I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
Jack Zipes -
My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
Gary Oldman -
Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
Victoria Aveyard -
Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.
Fisher Stevens
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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
Gary Hamel -
I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
Lalu Prasad Yadav -
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch Spinoza -
This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
Walter Lang -
You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
Quavo Migos -
I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
Flo Rida
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
Adam McKay -
If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
Francesca Annis -
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I've always had not just an affection but a real love for the theater family in New York, and I really feel it is a family. I'm so touched by the generosity of everyone there.
Lindsay Duncan -
My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS.
Frank Abagnale -
A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.
Billy Bragg