Ellis Peters Quotes
Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired
Ellis Peters
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
Forest Whitaker
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
Rachel Kushner
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
Yair Lapid
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
Daniel Bryan
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
Zooey Deschanel
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.
Olaus Murie
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
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The Coolidge Bull market was a remarkable phenomenon. The ruthlessness of its liquidation was, in its own way, equally remarkable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
Nate Silver
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Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired
Ellis Peters