Peter De Vries Quotes
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
Cameron Diaz -
I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
Damien Hirst -
Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
Dan Webster -
Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.
Ilan Stavans -
Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
Pat Buchanan -
I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
Carice van Houten
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
Natalie du Toit -
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams -
I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
Jack Osbourne -
Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
Gary Numan -
Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
Zendaya -
I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
Patrick deWitt
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
Omari Hardwick -
Supergirl is such an iconic brand, and for me to be able to be the new face of it is extremely exciting.
Nastia Liukin -
A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'
Imelda May -
I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?
Eddie Plank -
The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
Sam Kean
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It was so interesting going to high school in New York. You get a callous to the city and an empathy for every type of person.
Alex Wolff -
I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.
Jane Smiley -
Sometimes I'm really mean to someone who just hugged me. I never thought that I would be like that.
Frankie Cosmos -
Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in.
Courteney Cox -
A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.
Olivia Wilde -
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
Peter De Vries