James Boswell Quotes
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
Gail Sheehy -
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
Lao Tzu -
When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
Olympia Dukakis -
I talk about everything. I'm like the person who comes home and can't hide anything. Even my friends sometimes are like, 'Kate, you've got to stop talking so much about your life.' And I'm like, 'Why?' I can't keep things in, really.
Kate Hudson -
When I sing, I try to communicate certain emotions, and that's the voice that comes out.
Anthony Santos Aventura -
The level of credit in Mexico has shown to be low. And where credit concentrates the most favors large corporations and not companies.
Enrique Pena Nieto
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Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.
Dave Anderson -
Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.
Martin Scorsese -
It was a lot of fun doing the Nike commercials, too.
Jason Mewes -
I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.
Charlie Kaufman -
It's a very sad thing to do, to divorce.
Kristian Bush Sugarland -
'Ida' doesn't set out to explain history. That's not what it's about. The story is focused on very concrete and complex characters who are full of humanity with all its paradoxes. They're not pawns used to illustrate some version of history or an ideology.
Pawel Pawlikowski
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I started keeping track of my pet peeves and so far have counted over 160... but to pick one: muffins. They're imposters. They think they're breakfast food, but really, they are just terrible cupcakes.
Aubrey Peeples -
Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Writing a screenplay needs to be more than words on a page - and by the way, I think the words on the page are something you have to try to execute on the highest level you can; I'm not dismissing that by any regard.
John Ridley -
Keep your eye on what you're responsible to and what you're responsible for, and that'll keep you right.
El DeBarge DeBarge -
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it;We are happy now because God wills it.
James Russell Lowell -
Every decade or so, the world is tested by a crisis so grave that it breaks the mould: one so horrific and inhumane that the response of politicians to it becomes emblematic of their generation -their moral leadership or cowardice, their resolution or incompetence. It is how history judges us.
Jo Cox
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.
Erica Jong -
I always believe that people can learn a broader skill set. You need good technology and solving a big problem. I always think that, at it's core, it's solving a problem; you're not building technology for the sake of technology.
Adam Draper -
Who's Kreacher?" "The house-elf who lives here," said Ron. "Nutter. Never met one like him." "He is not a nutter," said Hermione. "His life's ambition is to have his head cut off and stuck up on a plaque like his mother", said Ron. "Is that normal, Hermione?
Joanne Rowling -
Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.
James Boswell