Jeremy Irons Quotes
I wanted to become an actor because I wanted to become a gypsy. I wanted to live the gypsy life!Jeremy Irons
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
Eartha Kitt -
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips -
I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
Florence Griffith Joyner -
The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
Victor Garber -
My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
Ed Bradley -
Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
Barry O'Farrell
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
Venus Williams -
In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
Padgett Powell -
We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
Oriana Fallaci -
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
e. e. cummings -
I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.
Forest Whitaker
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
Mac DeMarco -
In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
Federico Garcia Lorca -
The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
Warren Bennis -
Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
Faran Tahir -
I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
Valeria Golino -
I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
Carine Roitfeld
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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
Carlos Fuentes -
It's very easy for me to laugh at myself and laugh at life.
Matthew Ashford -
The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
Kate O'Mara -
In the face of Russian aggression, we’re not going to turn our back to our allies in Europe. We’re going to stay united in NATO, which is the world’s strongest alliance.
Barack Obama -
I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.
Adrian Anthony Gill -
I wanted to become an actor because I wanted to become a gypsy. I wanted to live the gypsy life!
Jeremy Irons