Oswald Chambers Quotes
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
Harlan Coben -
We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
Yami Gautam -
My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
Dana Perino -
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
Harold Brodkey -
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
Ira Sachs
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
Ian Hart -
Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
Sam Kean -
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
Macaulay Culkin -
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Vegetarians in general don't like me.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
Zoe Lister-Jones
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Manuel Puig -
I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
Randa Haines -
Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
Zadie Smith -
I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
Laura Dern -
I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
Fiona Shaw -
The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.' My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said. My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to Rom. 'I thought we had convinced him that I was leading a blameless life?' 'We had, till you burst out of that damnable cake.
Eva Ibbotson -
The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.
Donatella Versace -
I have always been drawn to young characters and seeing big tapestries through the eyes of a child. It probably comes from being a father myself and having a young son and seeing the world through his eyes. I write stories that are sort of the exaggerated version of that.
Jeff Lemire -
God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.
Oswald Chambers