Jasper Fforde Quotes
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It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.
D. W. Griffith -
I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
Viggo Mortensen -
Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
Pat Summitt -
It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
Gary Bauer -
Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
F. Murray Abraham -
People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
Abdolkarim Soroush
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I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.
Felipe VI of Spain -
I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
Laura Carmichael -
If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
Edie Campbell -
I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
Gail Carriger -
I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
Jack Reynor -
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. King
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
Karine Vanasse -
I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.
Damon Galgut -
I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
Harold Prince -
The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
Haley Reinhart -
I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
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Still when I'm a mess I still put on a vest With an 'S' on my chest Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman
Alicia Keys -
Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.
Chris Copeland -
I can appreciate other writers' works.
Clive Cussler -
I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't worry about grades and I read and learned a lot, and I didn't have much of a social life, so it was deeply absorbing.
Sheila Heti -
It's not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it's that you can accept yourself and then go out and accept others.
Jeff Koons -
Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
Jasper Fforde