Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
Carl Honore -
I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
Idris Elba -
I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
Samantha Shannon -
One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
Damon Galgut -
Our career had a sort of funny shape.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
Edie Falco
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I take my work seriously.
Daniel Craig -
'Twin Peaks' was huge. I mean, it changed television; it was a huge hit, and it only went a season and a half. So that teaches you immediately that you just enjoy it for the time that you do it.
Madchen Amick -
If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
T Bone Burnett -
Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
Sally Ride -
Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
Laura Dern -
Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire.
Yves Behar
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I want to hang out with my friends. I want to hang out with my family - well, I sometimes want to hang out with my family!
Dakota Johnson -
Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.
Jack Whitehall -
We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.
Vicente Fox -
I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
Dan Quayle -
Beyond a power play by the oil industry, there is no conceivable explanation for barring courts within any state from considering cases related to oil leases and energy production off its own coastlines.
Ted Deutch -
Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.
Gary Johnson
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My life is an open book. You're welcome to speculate.
Karan Patel -
In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.
Pyotr Ouspensky -
I don't think there's any question that the UFL or any other league that wants to challenge the NFL can have an impact. The demand for professional football is off the charts.
Mark Cuban -
Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.
Jean de La Fontaine