Elsa Peretti Quotes
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Working with Rosshan Andrews has been wonderful.
Manju Warrier -
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson -
I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.
Waris Ahluwalia -
I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
Harry Anderson -
If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
Sam Worthington -
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
Jack Prelutsky
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
Orson F. Whitney -
In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.
Hamish Linklater -
Moonlight is sculpture.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
Carlos Fuentes -
You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
Vidal Sassoon -
Television has done a lot for me, and I can never stay away from it.
Ram Kapoor
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I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.
Mackenzie Davis -
There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
Gary Gygax -
No actor wants to play to an empty house.
Ian Mckellen -
The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
Carl Honore -
We cannot let Brussels put itself above the law.
Viktor Orban -
I recently saw The Last American Virgin, one of those early-'80s coming-of-age movies. And the actors, they look like kids you grew up with! Today's teen movies, I didn't know anybody who looked like that. The standards now are so unbelievably high.
Beck
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
Aga Khan IV -
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham -
My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.
Olivia Colman -
Dennis: She's turned me down. She's broken my heart.Hal: She doesn't know what she is missing, baby.Dennis: But she does! That's what's so humiliating.
Joe Orton -
I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I like to do things that are classic.
Elsa Peretti