Brian Herbert Quotes
My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.Brian Herbert
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
Becki Newton -
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Walter Benjamin -
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Eddie Izzard -
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
Forest Whitaker -
When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
Harold E. Varmus
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
Walt Disney -
All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
Gary Weiss -
I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
Jacki Weaver -
It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
Laura Linney -
Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
Sally Mann
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
Tahl Raz -
I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.
Adam DeVine -
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell -
I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'
V. E. Schwab -
I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
A. J. Jacobs -
I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
Yoko Ono
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde -
It’s not about what we do, or what we feel, it’s about what He did and what He felt. It’s about what Christ has done for us.
Mike Donehey Tenth Avenue North -
Does that make you happy, Mr. Rock & Roll Fantasy? You know what? Eddie Vedder’s gonna live to be 98. How’s that make you feel, huh? I love you, come back. You come back! You love us. You love me, don’t you? You love Frances. Where are you? Are you happier now?
Courtney Love -
I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when I do a comedy, you know, I've found that, like, romantic comedy is the trickiest one, because often it's neither: it's not romantic and it's not funny. So, like, I like a comedy that's biting. It's biting humor or really quirky humor.
Matt Dillon -
My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers; the writing was a bond.
Brian Herbert