Jessamyn West Quotes
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
Zac Efron -
Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.
Randi Weingarten -
Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
Ferdinand Mount -
I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
Tanit Phoenix -
I've been in a few love triangles. I've been in a love quadrilateral.
Beau Mirchoff
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Six feet three in her stocking feet, L'Wren Scott was every inch a great lady.
Hamish Bowles -
Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.
Dan Brown -
Victoria's Secret is really about celebrating women and what they stand for: the strength.
Cara Delevingne -
Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.
Young Jeezy -
Apart from hard work and being in the right projects, you need to re-invent yourself. I'd be bored doing the same thing over and over, and the audience wouldn't like it, too. The trick is to break that monotony.
Kajal Aggarwal -
I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought, That's it. I'm not buying the next size.
Valerie Bertinelli
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Edith Hamilton -
The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.
Imelda Marcos -
I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private school for girls, leaving at sixteen to work. That was in the year 2056. AS 127, if you use the Scion calendar.
Samantha Shannon -
A filmmaker chooses an actress keeping the best interest of the film in mind. If he doesn't cast you, it doesn't mean there's a personal agenda. Change is constant, and if you have agreed to be part of this industry, you will have to go with the change. The films and filmmakers, even the audience has changed.
Rani Mukerji -
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
Baltasar Gracian -
Delivering advice assumes that our cognitive apparatus rather than our emotional machinery exerts some meaningful control over our actions.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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At my first Golden Globes, I met people I was very much enamored by: Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. It was surreal to see them in person.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson -
I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta.
Robbie Robertson -
Even though I am a lifelong 'Doctor Who' fan, I've not played him since I was nine. I downloaded old scripts and practised those in front of the mirror.
Peter Capaldi -
Don't trust people whose feelings change with time... Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes.
Ziad Abdelnour -
Groan and forget it.
Jessamyn West