Dominique Wilkins Quotes
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
Edmund White -
I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
Rachel Tucker -
It was never my goal to be an actor.
Rachel Hurd-Wood -
When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
Laura Linney -
I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.
Uwe Boll -
Harvey Korman was like a private tutor to me. He was such a mentor.
Vicki Lawrence
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In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.
Rand Paul -
I get tweets every single day going, like, 'I'm so glad you weren't on 'The X Factor.'
Ed Sheeran -
I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.
Nastia Liukin -
When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.
Natalia Ginzburg -
Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
H. L. Mencken -
I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.
Jacki Weaver
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I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes, but that's really not what giving someone goosebumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique.
Idina Menzel -
War will exist as long as there's a food chain.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Omnia qua propter debent per inane quietumaeque ponderibus non aequis concita ferri.
Lucretius -
Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I do not know why, but I do know that the universe never began.
Clarice Lispector -
He had dabbled in a thing which he had not understood. And had, furthermore, committed that greater sin of thinking that he did understand. And the fact of the matter was that he had just barely understood enough to make the concept work, but had not understood enough to be aware of its consequences.
Clifford D. Simak -
Peace, freedom and justice are only to be found where people are prepared to defend them.
Margaret Thatcher
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When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.
Sigmund Freud -
I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control.
Ray Bradbury -
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
George Herbert -
You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.
Warren Littlefield -
Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back.
George Peter John Criscuola Kiss -
I am diabetic.
Dominique Wilkins