James Boswell Quotes
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You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin -
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
Taisen Deshimaru -
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
Barbara Walters -
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Wayne Dyer -
Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
Sally Hawkins -
I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
Ted Deutch
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
Gary Wright -
Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
Dada Vaswani -
Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
Mahavira -
There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.
Canelo Alvarez
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
Oriana Fallaci -
I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.
Patrick Swayze -
I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.
Ian Rankin -
I like to stretch my acting muscles.
Samantha Morton -
If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.
Ophelia Lovibond
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
Jack O'Connell -
We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.
Wendell Berry -
I had never heard anyone doing what my show does, which is put the focus on the human condition - whatever you're going through, good or bad, right or wrong, straight or gay, whatever. That human experience is the meat of the show.
Paloma Ayana Stoecker -
This has been a marathon election as you can tell with a record turnout and I think it has been good for politics and it has been good for London.
Boris Johnson -
I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
Kate O'Brien -
A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
James Boswell