Philip Guedalla Quotes
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
D. B. Sweeney -
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
Jack Vance -
I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
Mal Peet -
New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.
Victoria Justice -
Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
Nadia Giosia -
I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
Oscar Niemeyer
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Napoleon Hill -
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker -
After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
Venus Williams -
The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
Barton Gellman -
When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
Dan Pink
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OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
Nat Friedman -
Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
Wendell Pierce -
Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
Victoria Jackson -
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke -
My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
Sam Harris -
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie
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I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.
Kate Beckinsale -
I used to not walk out the door; I was so afraid. Everything from, 'You shouldn't be here,' down to, 'Girl, don't wear those pants.' I was so sad. I tried my best to not even look in a mirror!
Keala Settle -
Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.
Jewel Kilcher -
Everything doesn't happen for a reason, if by this we mean evil is a part of God's plan. But God does ensure that evil will not prevail and that light will always, ultimately, overcome the darkness. If we follow God's lead, our work is to push back the darkness.
Adam Hamilton -
There's no map to human behaviour.
Bjork -
Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
Philip Guedalla