Martin Amis Quotes
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I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
Pat Paulsen -
Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
Barton Gellman -
I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
Vanessa Ferlito -
The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
Yuna -
There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
Ira Sachs -
I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
Fay Wray
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
Francia Raisa -
I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
P. Chidambaram -
I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court.
Gabriela Sabatini -
I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.
Padmasree Warrior -
The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
Ophelia Lovibond
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I played quarterback, and it was a leadership position, and even though I'm doing a solo thing now, a lot of my success is a part of assembling this team of people who are really, really talented, and their position doesn't put them out front the way mine does, but it's still a team effort.
Sam Hunt -
If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
Tamara Mellon -
One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
Venus Williams -
It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
Saint Ambrose -
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
Barry Unsworth -
I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
Caitlin Kittredge
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
Kate Reardon -
What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
Dan Quayle -
For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
Oren Peli -
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Lord Acton -
There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind
E. P. Thompson -
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
Martin Amis