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I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?

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• I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Small
  • City
  • Like

• Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Black
  • Ancestors

• I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Write
  • Writer
  • Fiction

• Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • People
  • Good
  • Amazing

• There's a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Women
  • Eye
  • Media

• I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • World
  • Family
  • Think

• I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Hip Hop

• I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Fashion
  • Never
  • Magazine

• I interned for the Knicks for one year doing community relations, but I absolutely hated it. It was a desk job, and the team was not good at all, and I didn't realize how much that correlated to the office. It was just gray, gloomy days.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Good
  • Job
  • Team

• No other facet of American business is more corrupt, more intoxicated with illegality, more weakly regulated, and has a greater impact on poor and working people than debt collectors; not credit card companies or subprime mortgages, not even payday lenders.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • People
  • Business
  • American

• First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.'

  

  Edmund White
  • Good
  • Christian
  • Marriage

• Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Know
  • Care
  • Impact

• Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Day
  • Psychology
  • Details

• Liberation cannot be desired because desire is the bondage. When you are desireless, you are liberated.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Desire

• Their things works of Die Brücke-artists must be exhibited. But I think it is incorrect to immortalize them in the document Almanac of our modern art (and, this is what our book ought to be) or as a more or less decisive, leading factor. At any rate I am against large reproductions of Die Brücke paintings in The Blaue Reiter Almanac.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Art
  • Book
  • Die

• Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • Work
  • Important
  • Stop

• The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Up
  • Marriage
  • Common

• I remember wanting to do something about that enormous-faced wristwatch she was wearing - perhaps suggest that she try wearing it around her waist.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • She
  • Remember

• I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

  

  Ric Ocasek The Cars
  • Drama
  • Walking

• I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?

  

  Brian May Queen