Edmund Wilson Quotes
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I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
Orlando Bloom -
Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
Laura Wasser -
I am passionate about human rights.
Hannah Simone -
I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
Madeleine Albright -
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
H. P. Lovecraft
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What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
Barry Humphries -
In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
Gabrielle Union -
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
Victor Hugo -
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Ouida -
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
Kate Atkinson -
I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
Irrfan Khan
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac Asimov -
I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
Tecumseh -
I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
Rachel Stevens -
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman -
I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.
Barack Obama -
I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
Maggie Smith
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
Laura Marling -
People buy from people they trust and they trust people they like.
Garrison Wynn -
Don't count the days, make the days count.
Muhammad Ali -
Narrative is so important for building the sexual tension. Can you imagine a horror movie that only shows the blood, with no context? I think women need to get to know the characters before they start stripping.
Erika Lust -
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson