Phil Klay Quotes
I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things.Phil Klay
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
Garry Shandling -
When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
Taylour Paige -
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot -
I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
Adam D'Angelo -
Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
Ibrahim Hooper -
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor Hugo
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor -
I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
Orlando Bloom -
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe -
We kind of like the new Outkast.
Quavo Migos -
I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
M. J. Rose -
I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
Barry Hannah
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
Jack Bowman -
Actors don't have real value.
Uwe Boll -
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang -
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
Abigail Adams -
When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
Lady Gaga
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We need more drag king role models for all those interested in the art.
BeBe Zahara Benet -
I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.
Vincent Van Gogh -
If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.
Rumi -
I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things.
Phil Klay