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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.
Gail Kelly -
Only silence perfects silence.
A. R. Ammons -
I love to turn an idea that is in my head into reality.
Edgardo Osorio
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Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I grew up on classic Nintendo, which was amazing. My best friends were hardcore into it.
Johanna Braddy -
Our creature comforts
Matthew Henry -
One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.
Pierre Corneille -
On the red carpet, I'm playing a character. As soon as I get off that thing, I think, 'Oof, wipe that gloss off.' I'm wiping and wiping and pulling my hair out and trying to change my outfit. I'm immediately trying to get comfortable. It's really a part I play.
Jessica Biel -
I wanted to become an actor because I wanted to become a gypsy. I wanted to live the gypsy life!
Jeremy Irons