Max Beerbohm Quotes
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
Harlan Coben -
I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
Umberto Eco -
I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
Daniel Craig -
I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
Halston Sage -
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln -
I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
Olesya Rulin
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
J. Irwin Miller -
If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
Ad Reinhardt -
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
Eddie Murphy -
All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
Randi Weingarten -
Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
Dan Pink
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar -
I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
Kat Graham -
If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
Kate Atkinson -
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
Damian Lewis -
Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
Fannie Flagg -
I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
J. R. Smith
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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
Oscar Wilde -
I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far left up on TV and the far right up on TV against me at the same time.
Claire McCaskill -
When we two partedIn silence and tears,Half brokenhearted,To sever for years.
Lord Byron -
If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
B. C. Forbes -
There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.
Bill James -
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
Max Beerbohm