Peter Cook Quotes
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
Warren Spector -
One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
Nathan Myhrvold -
There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
D. L. Hughley -
I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years.
Laura Hillenbrand -
There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
Tatiana Maslany -
It's totally my dream job. I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live.' We'd watch it at sleepover parties and quote it.
Vanessa Bayer
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I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.
Imogene Coca -
All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
Victoria Billings -
I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi novel before I wrote 'The Bone Season' at nineteen.
Samantha Shannon -
I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
Rachel Zoe -
'Straight Outta Compton' was such a great movie, and obviously, I'm in the music business, so getting to see that piece of history was amazing, and it was an incredible movie.
Bebe Rexha
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What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.
Jack McBrayer -
I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat.
Conor McGregor -
My attitude would be the same as the attitude of the working class in Germany when the Nazis came to power. It does not mean that because at some stage you elect a government that you tolerate its existence. You oppose it...I will oppose a second-term Thatcher government as vigorously as I possibly can.
Arthur Scargill -
Hi mores, haec duri inmota Catonissecta fuit, servare modum finemque tenerenaturamque sequi patriaeque inpendere vitamnec sibi sed toti genitum se credere mundo.
Lucan -
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.
Keegan-Michael Key -
To have hundreds of people from every political and demographic group you can imagine coming out day after day to take part in the national health care debate is fantastic.
Jared Polis
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I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
Nawal El Saadawi -
First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.
LaToya London -
St. Louis is a very interesting city in terms of accents.
Annaleigh Ashford -
When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre
Virginia Woolf -
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
Terry Eagleton -
'Film Stars' (1965)
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