Karen Joy Fowler Quotes
Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.Karen Joy Fowler
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Damien Hirst -
God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
Walter Annenberg -
It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
I find that men are far more vain than women.
Patricia Arquette -
Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
Patricia Reilly Giff -
I'm still learning my craft.
Yann Martel
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
Queen Latifah -
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
Patrick Chappatte -
I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
Jack Kevorkian -
Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
Natascha McElhone
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
Wayne Coyne -
I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
Patricia Polacco -
I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
Aaron Paul -
The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
Fareed Zakaria -
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
Malcolm Arnold
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If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
Dan Glickman -
Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
Malaika Arora Khan -
I'm a Scorpio. I have different mood swings.
Craig Robinson -
I think there needs to be people that are doing something different in music. There's a need for that as much as there's a need for a scene.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.
Denis Villeneuve -
Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.
Karen Joy Fowler