Jessica Tandy Quotes
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.
Sam Shepard -
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
Nan Fairbrother -
Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
Gary Sinise -
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
Ian Mcewan -
Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
Xavier Becerra
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
P. J. O'Rourke -
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Saint Augustine -
She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
Fay Wray -
That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
Barbara Hale -
You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
A. Lawrence Lowell -
I'm a fan of creating the mood and vibe with flowers, candles, and music. I love making my guests feel like it's not formal and they can relax in my home.
Karen Elson
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
Gary Carter -
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
Quintilian -
I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.
Victoria Pendleton -
Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
Vida Blue -
In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
Youssou N'Dour -
We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.
Gavin MacLeod
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I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.
Kacey Musgraves -
It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
Walter Kirn -
I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.
Bob Dylan -
I watched films growing up, but no more than the next guy, really. Working on 'Hugo' made me appreciate cinema and the art of cinema a lot more.
Asa Butterfield -
Each of us must do whatever we have a passion to do.
Jessica Tandy