Nancy Friday Quotes
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
Ed Helms -
I don't miss acting at all.
Zachery Ty Bryan -
I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
Jackson Rathbone -
We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.
Ian Hacking -
My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
Natasha Trethewey -
I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
Ida Lupino
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
W. H. Davies -
It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
Tahar Rahim -
Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
Yousuf Karsh -
As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
Yochai Benkler -
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen -
Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
Olivia Thirlby
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
J. J. Watt -
People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
Takeru Kobayashi -
People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
Upamanyu Chatterjee -
The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.
Bat for Lashes -
When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
Hamish Linklater -
I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist, except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
Edith Hamilton -
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
Marcel Marceau -
The children are always the chief victims of social chaos.
Agnes Meyer Driscoll -
Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear.'
Randy Pausch -
Little boys have amazing minds.
Ferdinand Marcos -
Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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