Martin Van Creveld Quotes
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
Olivia Colman -
Self-doubt kills talent.
Edie McClurg -
Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
Dan Buettner -
A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
Laura Anne Gilman -
I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
Carly Fiorina
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
Oscar Wilde -
I always give importance to scripts first, and remuneration is something that comes later.
Hansika Motwani -
You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
Vera Farmiga -
I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
Damian Lewis -
As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
Garry Hynes -
If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
Lars von Trier
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There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
Orhan Pamuk -
Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
Ziggy Marley -
I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
Daniel Berrigan -
If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
Nancy Kress -
We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.
Walter Dean Myers -
Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.
Orison Swett Marden
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We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow.
Lee Iacocca -
And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you've always got two choices. One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever. Or two, you can grieve, and then face the future with newly sober eyes.
Neil Pasricha -
I remember shooting a show in Australia and I was having to leave and come home all the time. And I remember I was leaving for two months and I wept for like 12 hours on the plane because I wasn’t going to get to see him. So yes. I can relate to the young love thing. … But it was only four years - and not that many boyfriends ago.
Maia Mitchell -
Men will deal rude blows to that which is the cause of their life:-They will thrash the grain.
Leonardo da Vinci -
'Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.
Martin Van Creveld