M. Ward Quotes

I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.

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• Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Truth
  • Enough
  • Belief

• Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fun
  • Some
  • Harry Potter

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Parents
  • Kind
  • Appreciate

• Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • America
  • Culture

• I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Thought

• I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

  

  Pat Cash
  • You
  • Tennis
  • McDonald

• That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Life
  • Younger

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Difficult
  • Landscape
  • TV

• I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Like
  • Being
  • Profession

• While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Actor
  • Give
  • Romance

• I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Sea
  • Walk

• I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Believe
  • Place

• You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Fun
  • Journey
  • Enjoy

• When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • Care
  • Body

• Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Always
  • Minds
  • Comedians

• It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • World
  • Political

• I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Poetry

• I don't know when it started - this thing - bit it's growing, muffling me, suffocating me like poison ivy. I grew into it. It grew into me. We blurred at the edges, became an amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • Growing

• I think my style revolves around the philosophy that less is more, that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That goes for my taste in design and in clothes, and even affects the way I approach music. I'm all about keeping things simple, and minimal, but being able to convey something powerful through that approach.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Style

• The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes.

  

  Boris Trajkovski
  • Political
  • Religious

• I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.

  

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