Joan Lingard Quotes
Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of the story you're writing. But the real key to success lies in finding the right characters to carry that story.Joan Lingard
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
Carlos Alazraqui -
All four majors are definitely a priority.
Karrie Webb -
I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.
Canelo Alvarez -
We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
Damian Lewis -
I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
Jack Keane -
My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.
Karin Slaughter
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
Flavor Flav -
Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
Saad Hariri -
I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
Washed Out -
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
Samantha Power -
I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
Radha Mitchell -
I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
Walter Isaacson
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
Adam Johnson -
Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
Damien Hirst -
Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
Zubin Mehta -
In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
Viggo Mortensen -
I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
Pat Robertson
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
Laura Carmichael -
A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.
Christian Louboutin -
Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
We respect every religion. Everyone is free to practice his religion freely... In the Tunisian parliament, we have even Jews.
Beji Caid Essebsi -
Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of the story you're writing. But the real key to success lies in finding the right characters to carry that story.
Joan Lingard