Persius Quotes
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
Oscar Isaac -
Close friends consider me a literary snob.
Rabih Alameddine -
I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
Mackenzie Davis -
I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
Quentin Bryce -
I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
Daniel Craig -
When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.
Ban Ki-moon
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The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
Olivier Dahan -
I like things all shined up and rocking with hooky pop choruses.
Carlene Carter -
My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
Yancy Butler -
I was on 'The O.C.' and had a small part, which wasn't very challenging. I was a bit bored, so I started shadowing directors and they finally gave me a shot. From there, it led to directing other television shows. I am trying to direct a feature film, so we'll see what happens.
Tate Donovan -
Quality is pride of workmanship.
W. Edwards Deming -
What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
Lady Gaga
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Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the ‘greatest good for the greatest number’ can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.
Aneurin Bevan -
Do they want me to stay? Do they want me to leave? Do they want me to hang myself? To kill myself? What do they want?
Ai Weiwei -
Che l'amar senza speme è sogno e ciancia.
Ludovico Ariosto -
I'm not afraid of death myself, because I'm not gonna know I'm dead. I'm awed a bit by the idea, but I'm perfectly reconciled to it. Certainly I am, as everyone is, reconciled to everyone else's death but their own. They think an exception can be made in their own case.
Christopher Hitchens -
Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.
Andrea Anders -
I thought everybody had falsetto. And since I wasn't a schooled singer who studied with anybody, I just thought anybody who had a voice could do anything they wanted with their voice.
Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
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My best business decision was going into business for myself and owning the box my pretty face was on instead of just being the pretty face on the box. And my worst was letting other people run my business.
Kam Williams -
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Jeff Bezos -
I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.
Ernest Cline -
Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?
Zainab Salbi -
Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz -
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
Persius