Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
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Boys can just wear a suit on the red carpet and that's fine, but for girls it's all about the way you look, and there are constant comparisons.
Maisie Williams
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
Tami Hoag
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
Vanessa Mae
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
Carine Roitfeld
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
Ian McShane
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I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
Sam Worthington
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I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.
Banks
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In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.
Carlo Rubbia
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Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.
Dalai Lama
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
C. K. Williams
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Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So when I arrived Australia, I thought, 'Oh my God, everything is different from what I was told.' Since then, I started to think differently.
Jack Ma
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Feminists might identify with me because I'm unapologetic in what they think is a male-dominated world … no, I guess, what is a male-dominated world.
Lucy Lawless
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I'm going to stand up for what I need to do, not what everybody else wants me to do.
DeAngelo Williams
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I really love Norah Jones.
Caroline Manzo
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My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best.
Jencarlos Canela
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My father, he couldn't read or write.
Joe R. Lansdale