Don Marquis Quotes

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

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• Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • People
  • Deep
  • Acting

• I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Strong
  • Interesting

• Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Fight
  • See
  • Before

• Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Say

• Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Present
  • Strange
  • Reaction

• The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • American
  • America
  • Value

• I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Live
  • Without
  • Activity

• Not every artist is a role model.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Artist
  • Model
  • Role Model

• I mean the future has become old fashioned.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Future
  • Old
  • Become

• See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Experience
  • Opportunity
  • New

• You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • World
  • Woman
  • Care

• There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Kind
  • Generation
  • Connected

• MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Black
  • Running

• One day, my twin sister Sidra and I pranked Tyler Perry on the set of 'For Better or Worse.' I made her dress up as me and do a scene as if she were my character Angela. Tyler says, 'Action!' and my sister starts acting. It was horrible.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Up
  • She
  • Character

• Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children, but just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us that maybe the world has made us forget and that maybe our pictures can help recall.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Children
  • Help

• The writing accompanying this oddity was, aside from a stack of press cuttings, in Professor Angell's most recent hand; and made no pretense to literary style. What seemed to be the main document was headed 'CTHULHU CULT' in characters painstakingly printed to avoid the erroneous reading of a word so unheard-of.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Hand

• Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Power

• I have no confusion in my mind about that. It was a tragedy, it was a painful experience. You say that the Congress party was involved in that, I don’t agree with that. Certainly there was violence, certainly there was tragedy.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Party

• Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and sister. It was really a struggle, and knowing that there were people out there with tight-knit families really made my childhood an unfortunate one.

  

  Victor Ortiz
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• I grew up with older brothers, adore them, can't imagine going through life without them, and I definitely think I draw on that love when I'm writing about siblings. It's so powerful, the jump-in-front-of-a-train-to-protect-them kind of love.

  

  Jandy Nelson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• And I say it's not. I tell them these men and women are over there because our country sent them, and we have the absolute necessity to try to bring them as much happiness as we can.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

  

  Don Marquis