Jim Henson Quotes
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
M. Ward -
No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
Saint Ambrose -
I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
Gail Carson Levine -
All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
Gabourey Sidibe -
There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.
Sam Yagan -
Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.
Yvonne Strahovski
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I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.
Nadine Velazquez -
I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.
J. Maarten Troost -
The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.
Taylor Lautner -
Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.
Ja Rule -
BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.
Carl Safina
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I'm not a huge jewelry fan.
Felicity Jones -
Much of the obscurity of our effort so far against terrorism originates in the now official idea that the enemy is evil and that we are (therefore) good, which is the precise mirror image of the official idea of the terrorists.
Wendell Berry -
For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.
Mary Hunter Austin -
I've always used a mallet putter on tour. I get too much face rotation with a blade.
Lexi Thompson -
I had come to college believing in a story that if you worked hard, the American dream was reachable.
Matthew Desmond -
Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
Mason Cooley
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We didn't have much, but I was raised to believe if you had books, you had a lot. My grandfather and my parents made me and my twin brother Kiel read at least a book a week.
Christian Scott -
Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.
George Bernard Shaw -
I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!
Mark Goddard -
The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
J. G. Holland -
I wanted to do a film where the creatures didn't look like us.
Jim Henson