Peter Carey Quotes
My mother was the daughter of a poor schoolteacher - well, that's a tautology - a country schoolteacher.Peter Carey
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
Adam Peaty -
I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
Idina Menzel -
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian -
I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
Vanessa Hudgens -
What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
Harland Williams -
When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
Zack Snyder
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
D. J. MacHale -
There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
Taylor Schilling -
I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
There's more to life than physical and material.
Ziggy Marley -
Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
Yael Grobglas -
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
Rachael Leigh Cook
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
Anton Zaslavski -
I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
Karrine Steffans -
With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
Adam Beach -
There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
Katharine Butler Hathaway -
This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
Walter Lang -
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
Abba Eban
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I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.
Yuna -
When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.
Gabriel Lippmann -
Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.
Max Cleland -
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.
James E. Faust -
My mother was the daughter of a poor schoolteacher - well, that's a tautology - a country schoolteacher.
Peter Carey