Donna Tartt Quotes
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.Donna Tartt
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
Damon Wayans, Jr. -
The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
Patrick Leahy -
I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
Natalie Portman -
I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
Uday Kiran -
Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
Damon Galgut -
Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
Sally Ride
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
Captain Beefheart -
Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
Eckhart Tolle -
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
Zach Anner -
By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
Ted Lindsay -
Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
Kate Bosworth
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage Landor -
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mahatma Gandhi -
Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
Olympia Dukakis -
People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
Larry Flynt -
If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
Yossi Vardi -
If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.
A. Philip Randolph
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I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.
Zac Brown Band -
My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.
Eli Wallach -
It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.
Martin Mull -
The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing - to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from - my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.
C. S. Lewis -
My family has been around campaigns for a long time. It's something you really have to be sure that you alone want to do. Because if not, if you don't want to do it, that will just blow through the surface at some point, and people can tell. And when people can tell, it's all over.
Joe Kennedy III -
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
Donna Tartt