Matthew Prior Quotes
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
Cara Buono -
I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
Walter Cronkite -
Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
Garth Nix -
I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
Rachel Kushner -
For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
Laura Harring -
People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
Jack Nicklaus
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash -
My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
Langston Hughes -
If you fire people, you fire customers.
Ferdinand Piech -
I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
Barbara Broccoli -
I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
Taraji P. Henson -
There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.
Zhang Ziyi
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
Gary David Goldberg -
Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
Kate Reardon -
I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.
Vincent Bugliosi -
As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
Vijay Sethupathi -
When we look at government in Washington or what's happening on Wall Street, we see so much centralization. But really, our goals should be to eliminate and overcome these central institutions. And in recent years we have gained powerful new tools to do this, and most significant among those is the block chain, which is the software behind Bitcoin.
Patrick M. Byrne -
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
Ramakrishna
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I don't think anybody is ever going to call me to play someone who is mousy and demure.
Drea De Matteo -
Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
P. J. O'Rourke -
When I get ready to go out, it's half hour and we're out of the door. I don't want to waste time getting ready: I want to go and have fun.
Meghan Markle -
It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso -
L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.
Nicolas Berggruen -
From ignorance our comfort flows.The only wretched are the wise.
Matthew Prior