Penelope Spheeris Quotes
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
Lake Bell -
My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
G. Hannelius -
I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
Baltasar Kormakur -
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton -
I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
Faith Hill -
Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
Daniel Dennett -
One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
Oren Peli -
I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
R. Kelly -
I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
Kate Upton -
The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.
Sam Rivers Limp Bizkit -
I didn't particularly like being objectified.
L'Wren Scott
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
Ted Deutch -
How we get power, how cars are powered, when the technology and resources to have something that is infinitely better, we still use old-school technology. We're still using that same exact structure.
Dana Brunetti -
Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
Katha Pollitt -
It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
Rachel Johnson -
My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.
Gabriel Mann -
There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don't know it.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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Let's start at the very end: The postscript of Stephen King's 'On Writing' contains some of the most harrowing pages he has ever written. It's here that King describes the traffic accident that nearly killed him in June 1999.
Gary Krist -
The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?
Larry Ellison -
My first film, 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the auditions.
Jacob Latimore -
It's fun to dress up and look good. And it's fun to try on clothes and wear a different jacket every night. It also helps you on stage to feel like you belong there.
Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion -
Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.
Napoleon Hill -
This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.
Penelope Spheeris