M. K. Hobson Quotes

Nothing is ever what you want it to be. The harder you grab for it, the more deeply it cuts. And it mocks you for being foolish enough to reach for it at all. You come to fear touching anything at all, because you know that if you do, it will become terrible.

M. K. Hobson

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• I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
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• Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
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• A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.

  

  Umera Ahmad
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• Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

  

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• I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

  

  R. L. Stine
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• We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.

  

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• But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.

  

  Olga Korbut
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• You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.

  

  Danica McKellar
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• Good material is good material.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.

  

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• Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.

  

  G. W. Bailey
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• The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

  

  Irving Thalberg
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  • Art
  • Movie

• There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
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• I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.

  

  Larry Bucshon
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• When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.

  

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• India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

  

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• I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

  

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• I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.

  

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• In the formulas of 'personnel experts', men and women are to be shaped into the 'well rounded, acceptable, effective personality.' Just like small proprietors, they cannot higgle over prices, which are fixed, or 'judge the market' and accordingly buy wisely.

  

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• Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives.

  

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• We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

  

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• Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.

  

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• Nothing is ever what you want it to be. The harder you grab for it, the more deeply it cuts. And it mocks you for being foolish enough to reach for it at all. You come to fear touching anything at all, because you know that if you do, it will become terrible.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Fear