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• Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Up
  • High
  • Water

• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Age
  • Ideas
  • Class

• People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • People
  • Think
  • Try

• This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • May
  • Like
  • Beauty

• There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Truth
  • Source
  • Pursuit

• Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Opponent

• I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Olympic
  • Medallist

• The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Interesting
  • Community
  • Advertising

• I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.

  

  Imelda May
  • Work
  • Play
  • Language

• Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Life
  • Career
  • Words

• The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Women
  • Want
  • Trouble

• I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Ashamed
  • Lady
  • Argue

• The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Mistake

• The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Sometimes
  • Paint

• Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Actions
  • Experiment

• The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Death
  • September
  • Egypt

• I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Growing
  • Speak
  • Musicians

• Pink is like the one color I say I hate, and yet somehow I end up wearing it. Like, Michael Kors sent me a pink dress, and I'm like: 'So beautiful!' And I'm wearing it telling him 'I hate pink, why am I wearing this? It's really nice though.'

  

  Kate Mara
  • Up
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other.

  

  William James
  • Thinking
  • Social
  • Evolution

• I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Me
  • Name
  • Changed

• So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped.

  

  David Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Why

• The best cartoons have no words at all - just the image pops out.

  

  Jeff MacNelly
  • Words