Calvin Trillin Quotes
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I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
Taylor Momsen -
I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
J. G. Ballard -
I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
Warren Beatty -
I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
Pamela Dean -
You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
Jack Youngblood -
When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
F. Gary Gray
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
J. Paul Getty -
I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
Ed Sheeran -
I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
Maajid Nawaz -
What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.
Barack Obama -
If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.
J. B. Pritzker
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I'd love to return to theater.
Orlando Bloom -
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
Wayne Gretzky -
It's very special having a new little girl.
Kate Middleton -
I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
Eartha Kitt -
Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
Fiona Apple
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I come from a culture where we wear white for weddings. In India, it's different. But I really feel that there should be no set notions, and a bride should only wear something when she's comfortable in it.
Nargis Fakhri -
I've always done guest-starring stuff.
Christina Ricci -
Since war often enters homes through the "kitchen door," we need to understand women's attempts to keep life going in the face of shortage of food, closing of schools and reduced freedoms.
Zainab Salbi -
In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
Irwin Shaw -
I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try on my clothes and she feels beautiful, I know I am doing my job.
Alber Elbaz -
Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
Calvin Trillin