Patti Smith Quotes
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
Naturi Naughton 3LW -
I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
Ira Sachs -
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
J. G. Ballard -
Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
Lactantius -
In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
Kage Baker -
You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
Ian McShane
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
Vijay Mallya -
Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
Ralph Fiennes -
No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.
Lady Gaga -
I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of romantic comedies, in fact I can't stand them. I'm really more of a fan of 'Team America' and 'Dodgeball.'
Rachel Hurd-Wood -
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
Harpo Marx
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Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.
Valentina Tereshkova -
A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
Taylor Caldwell -
Anyone would think paintings were made like speculations on the stock market, out of the frictions of ambitious young people... ...it sharpens the mind, but clouds your judgement.
Edgar Degas -
Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
Alfred North Whitehead -
Do your best and let God do the rest.
Ben Carson -
The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious.
Logic
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
Maddie Hasson -
I could actually be somebody that, if you showed me new gun-control legislation could help solve this problem, I might actually be able to support something like that.
Dana Perino -
I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
Amelia Barr -
I'm the kind of person who doesn't really focus on more negativity. I'm a positive person, and I look at things in a positive way.
Caster Semenya -
The first half-dozen or so will be nice, but after that, I'm going to want a pro. (Referring to the Muslim concept of achieving 72 virgins upon arrival in heaven).
Dennis Miller -
I'd just make sure with anything I say I know what I'm talking about.
Patti Smith