Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
Gabby Douglas -
The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
D. J. MacHale -
I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I'm not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being.
Caitlin Moran -
Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
Jacob Epstein -
Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
Carly Patterson -
I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
R. Kelly
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I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
Tamae Watanabe -
England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.
Frances Beinecke -
In literature, older women are not often given center stage.
Kate Christensen -
In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for.
Nate Berkus -
'Somnia' is a story about loss and, I guess, what you're willing to do to have closure and try and feel whole again. It's a story of redemption in a sense. I don't want to give too much away, but it's a heartbreaking story that's incredibly terrifying.
Katee Sackhoff
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Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.
Sada Thompson -
The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain.
Ramez Naam -
The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
Oscar Wilde -
Somewhere in me was a rod of steel to which I clung. I’d had a vision, as good as any vision given to any poet, sage, or prophet in the past. I wasn’t elated, I wasn’t confident even, but somehow, I knew, and with the end of doubt had come the death of despair.
Tanith Lee -
The magic's in my hands When in doubt I whip it out I got me a rock 'n' roll band It's a free-for-all
Ted Nugent
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As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.
Colin Baker -
I can just remember being broke, wondering if I had any talent - really wondering whether this was all a fantasy - but I had to get out there and keep trying.
Lenny Abrahamson -
Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
C. L. R. James -
If you create incredible value and information for others that can change their lives - and you always stay focused on that service - the financial success will follow.
Brendon Burchard -
You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.
William Randolph Hearst -
A hungry stomach cannot hear.
Jean de La Fontaine