Bozoma Saint John Quotes
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
Gary Ross -
You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
Garth Brooks -
If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
Vanilla Ice -
The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran burning.
K. A. Paul -
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
Patrick Modiano -
I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
La Monte Young -
If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
Otis Redding -
As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.
Randa Haines -
I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.
Malala Yousafzai -
It was a unique childhood, to say the least. My father was born in Patiala to refugee parents and was a part of the Indian Air Force. The talented few amongst the Air Force pilots are made test pilots. Test pilots are best suited to look at the space programme as they are trained to expect the unexpected.
Kapil Sharma
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
Barbara Cartland -
The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'
Nancy Kress -
Be larger than your task.
Orison Swett Marden -
The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.
Oscar Wilde -
Why should we put a plan out? Our plan is to stop him. He must be stopped.
Nancy Pelosi -
It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me.
Mat Kearney -
Censorship defeats the right to self determination.
Billy Forbes -
As much as you can eat healthy, it's also important to remember to drink healthy too. Tea is very healing.
Kristin Chenoweth -
Let's talk about Connie Britton, who I love. I don't know of a person who doesn't love her, I don't know a man or woman who doesn't have a crush on her, she's the most fabulous person in the entire world, and she's such an incredible actress, and so sweet, and I love her.
Maggie Carey -
Many bought into the idea that America could go from a technology-based, export-oriented powerhouse to a services-led, consumption-based economy - and somehow still expect to prosper. That idea was flat wrong. Our economy tilted instead toward the quicker profits of financial services.
Jeffrey R. Immelt -
I don't see a utopia anywhere for me.
Bozoma Saint John