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I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.

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• Another occupation might have been better.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Better
  • Been
  • Occupation

• Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • Music
  • Literature

• There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Know
  • Find
  • Racism

• My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • She
  • Me
  • Mom

• The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Great
  • Love
  • Food

• The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Inspiration
  • Sun
  • Gym

• I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Best
  • Enjoy

• My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Mother
  • Christmas
  • Brothers

• It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Good
  • Power
  • Alone

• It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • You
  • Down
  • Reach

• The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Words
  • Stories
  • Movies

• I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Movie
  • Got
  • Out

• When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you're playing, really.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Clothes

• Ray Harryhausen's 'Sinbad' picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years old when it came out, and it changed my life forever. I had nightmares about dragons and stuff for years - and loved it!

  

  Warren Spector
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Forever

• It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Important
  • Children
  • Education

• Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Criticism

• I write... for laymen and scientists, because the reader who is interested in any activity which needs thought and judgement is... a person to whom science can be made to speak, It is not he who is deaf, but the specialists who have been dumb-the specialists in the arts as well as in the sciences.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Dumb

• 'I didn’t want to scare you. We don’t want to scare anyone.''No? Well, sometimes it’s a good thing to scare people. Sometimes fear is all that will keep them from doing stupid things.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Good
  • Fear

• I want to do something that is unique, that has its own legs. But it's very hard because if you start veering off, if you get too crazy, then people won't know what to make of it. I want to please my audience, too. I want people to like what I do.

  

  Jann Klose
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Unique

• Michael might have become a vampire, but watching him stand outside in the night air, breathing in his freedom Claire thought that was as human as it could get.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Night
  • Freedom
  • Air

• Committed and loving gay and lesbian couples deserve to have their love, their relationships, and their families recognized like everyone else.

  

  Kevin McHale
  • Gay
  • Lesbian

• It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd tie you down.

  

  Emile Hirsch

• I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.

  

  Buchi Emecheta