Philip Larkin Quotes
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
Harold Prince -
For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
Teddy Sears -
Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
Kate Millett -
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Samuel Butler -
Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.
Federica Mogherini -
As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.
Rafael Nadal
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My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.
Quentin Bryce -
As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
Brown Campbell -
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
Daniel Dennett -
There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I don't have to rely on anyone else but me.
Hal Sparks -
I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.
Vanessa Bayer -
I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
Nana Mouskouri
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I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough.
Parker Posey -
Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.
Lance Burton -
I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
Saint Patrick -
I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.
Marc Andreesen -
The boots of the men clump On the boards of the bridge. The first white wall of the village Rises through fruit-trees. Of what was it I was thinking? So the meaning escapes.
Wallace Stevens
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In Nova Scotia, there are some definite down-home accents, and it's funny because you can go to Sydney, and one guy is from North Sydney, and you can't understand a thing he's saying, or Glace Bay or wherever.
Diego Klattenhoff -
You learn a lot about people when you're sitting on their bathroom floor or on their toilet seat, rifling through their stuff.
Emily Weiss -
I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
Jack Ma -
I'm going to be a strict mum. I know that love is the most important thing - you've got to have lots of kisses and cuddles - but you also need to mix it with discipline or you'll be in a heap of trouble.
Jill Scott -
Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.
Philip Larkin