James M. Barrie Quotes
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
James M. Barrie
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
Mamie Gummer
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Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
Haley Joel Osment
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
Walter Dean Myers
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
R. L. Stine
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
Natalie Massenet
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When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.
Nathan Sawaya
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
Rafael Nadal
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
Lara Spencer
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
Kamala Harris
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
Walter Lang
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
Patrick Duffy
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
Sam Raimi
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And so the arbitrary union of three incommensurate, mutually disconnected concepts became the basis of a bewildering theory... by which one of the lowest renderings of art, art for mere pleasure - against which all of the master teachers warned - was idealized as the ultimate in art.
Leo Tolstoy
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What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
Jaron Lanier
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It's always difficult to work out on location, away from home, but that's the actor's life. You go where the work is.
Jon Tenney
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Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.
H. G. Wells
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My history teacher could make us feel like he was imparting rare gossip to us when he was talking about Maria Theresa and the Habsburgs. I just loved that sense of - the Western canon is here, and it's gossipy and tawdry, and everyone is sort of goofy.
Mallory Ortberg
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
James M. Barrie
