Brian J. Smith Quotes
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
Harlan Coben -
I'm very self-critical.
Manolo Blahnik -
J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
Harrison Ford -
I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
Tatiana Maslany -
Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
Ferdinand Christian Baur -
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
Otto Weininger
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright -
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
Eddie Murphy -
I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
J. G. Ballard -
If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
Lalu Prasad Yadav -
I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
Eckhart Tolle
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
Hanna Rosin -
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
Fay Godwin -
I'm very happy alone.
Octavia E. Butler -
Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
E. M. Forster
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I have such strong beliefs. No money or anything could change that.
Vicky Krieps -
Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.
Tyne Daly -
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Victor Hugo -
Being on a movie set when you have a great strong people there supporting you can be very nurturing. You get to explore these creative parts of yourself as a child that most people don't explore until they're in college.
Mae Whitman -
I think David Hewlett is a comedic genius. I think he's great.
Brian J. Smith