Maeve Binchy Quotes
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.Maeve Binchy
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
Rachel Bloom -
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
Larry Norman -
I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
Randa Haines -
I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
Ice Cube
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
Nancy Travis -
My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My mother always seemed to be working. Our dining room table was cluttered with papers waiting to be read and graded.
Randi Weingarten -
I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
Karen Elson -
My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
Langston Hughes -
The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.
Olympia Dukakis -
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
Abu Bakr
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali -
Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
Larry Cohen -
In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
Utada Hikaru -
I actually prefer Twitter as a medium, and I also got into Periscope for a second, but I'm still trying to figure out what to do with it. I can't figure out if the only important thing about it is the live broadcast, or if it's an interesting kind of way to log what you do.
T. J. Miller -
I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics.
Vincent Cassel -
I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
Zoe Saldana
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You don't often see a cross section of female characters interacting with each other at the top of a chain.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge -
We're told that they were zealots fueled by religious fervour…religious fervour and if you live to be a thousand years old will that make any sense to you? Will that make any goddamn sense?
David Letterman -
I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
Garry Wills -
If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.
Judah Friedlander -
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
Maeve Binchy