Donald Pleasence Quotes
John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.Donald Pleasence
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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Madame de Stael -
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
Wallace Shawn -
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
W. Somerset Maugham -
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz -
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
Maggie Grace
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For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.
Namie Amuro -
I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
K. D. Lang -
When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
Adam Petty -
I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
Tamsin Egerton -
Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
Jack Canfield
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The fundamental goal of Republicans and Democrats is to get themselves re-elected.
Mallory Factor -
The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
Garry Trudeau -
The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
Bar Refaeli -
There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
Pat Metheny -
It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
Macaulay Culkin -
I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Tell the truth... maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.
Lucille Clifton -
Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
Patrick Kane -
Look, stranger, on this island now The leaping light for your delight discovers, Stand stable here And silent be, That through the channels of the ear May wander like a river The swaying sound of the sea.
W. H. Auden -
The Arab spring confirmed that peaceful change is possible and so reinforced the vision of political Islam. The impact of this went beyond the Brotherhood to include the Salafist tendency in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya that had questioned the democratic path.
Wadah Khanfar -
John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.
Donald Pleasence