Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
Naomie Harris -
As long as the dollar remains in high esteem as a trade currency, America can continue to spend more than it earns. But when the day arrives - as it certainly must - when the dollar tumbles and foreigners no longer want it, the free ride will be over.
G. Edward Griffin -
If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
Ralph Fiennes -
I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
Zac Efron -
The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
Oscar Niemeyer -
Tell you the truth, the night before, I don't sleep. It's exciting to be in postseason, you fight one-hitter 62 games, you make it.
Pablo Sandoval
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I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
Tanya Tucker -
I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
Carla Bley -
You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.
Ida Lupino -
Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
Larry David -
They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
Barbara Amiel
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Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.
Dan Stevens -
I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.
Taylor Dane -
Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
Laura Dern -
The Clouds consign their treasures to the fields;And, softly shaking on the dimpled poolPrelusive drops; let all their moisture flow,In large effusion, o'er the freshen'd world.
Rain -
Is power that-an emptiness?
Ursula K. Le Guin -
No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.
Orson Scott Card
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My need is about communicating the whole, and when the whole is there in the text and in what the actors are doing, then it doesn't need 'frou-frou,' as I call it.
John Tiffany -
In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to create a better world. This is not how we once thought about philanthropy. The word used to conjure up something rather passive - sitting down and writing checks.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
When I do comedy, it's not like I'm trying to be funny for folks; I look for the honesty in it. With James Early in 'Dreamgirls,' it was the honesty of it: it was the reality of the moment. You know, I don't know what makes me play sometimes. I really don't. I just do what I do. And that's what I did for 'Sliders,' and that's how I got the job.
Cleavant Derricks -
It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.
David Cross -
A lack of reform - particularly in international tax - has hurt our ability to compete in a global economy by keeping U.S. corporate cash overseas and reducing domestic investment, slowing economic growth.
John Delaney -
Robert Bloch taught me about mixing horror and humor.
Joe R. Lansdale