Jane Gardam Quotes
I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then, my goodness, I never stopped.Jane Gardam
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
Marat Safin -
In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
Weili Dai -
In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
Warren Mitchell -
Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
Eduardo Chillida -
I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
Lara Stone -
If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
Laura Harrier
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
Barry McGee -
Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
Carice van Houten -
I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
B. B. King -
I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
Harrison Ford -
The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
Salmon P. Chase -
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
Karl Abraham
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
Vernon Wells -
The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
Walter Kirn -
There's always that stigma of, 'Women shouldn't box,' or stereotypes of what a female boxer should look like. I don't think the men really have to deal with that - to tell people they're a boxer.
Mandy Bujold -
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Karl Marx -
People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
Tad Williams -
I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
Calvin Trillin
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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Claude Debussy -
Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
Carlos Slim -
As an actor, it's hard to direct because, suddenly, you're not around. The thing which I hate about directing is the waiting game, but you've really got to wait it out and be resilient and keep it going and keep everybody motivated.
Danny Huston -
Once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I have only just thought of it.
Margery Allingham -
A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.
Randi Weingarten -
I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then, my goodness, I never stopped.
Jane Gardam