James Thurber Quotes
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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Politics ruins the character.
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I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.
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Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.
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The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'
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If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?
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During a single week of July 1967, 164 Americans were killed and 2100 were wounded in city riots in the United States. We are truly fighting a two-front war and doing badly in both. Each war feeds on the other and, although the President assures us that we have the resources to win both wars, in fact we are not winning either.
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Yes, it was not journalism’s finest hour. But, MacAllister often argued, it never had been.
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I didn't know what my passion was until I discovered the dramatic arts in junior high and high school and I realized, 'Oh, I like this. This is something I feel like I'm good at.' But, the idea of moving to Hollywood and becoming an actor was really unrealistic.
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Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.
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Knowing one thing well empowers you and gives you a set of tricks to the trade that you can apply across the board. Go deep, and it will serve you when you make your choices about where you want to leave your mark.
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I love melon! I don't love melon; that's a bit... Melon's my favorite fruit.
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Of course I’m going to learn from the greats—Ronnie Lott, Ed Reed, Troy Polamalu. But there’s a lot of unfinished work they didn’t do. I want to be the standard. I want to redefine what it means to be a safety.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
