John Carney Quotes
I dropped out of school at 17 and joined the Irish band The Frames, getting my first glimpse into the world of professional film making while shooting of a number of rock videos.John Carney
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith -
I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
Larry Hovis -
I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
Daniel Cormier -
I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
Nancy Reagan -
I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
Larry Hagman -
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
Octavia E. Butler -
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.
Washed Out -
People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
Jackie Collins -
You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
Sai Baba -
If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
Daniel Gilbert
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
Patricia Norris -
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
Nawal El Saadawi -
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
Vernor Vinge -
In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
Irrfan Khan -
I've sung background for a couple of bands.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Samuel Johnson
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It's hard for anyone in the 24-hour news cycles that we all live in now to follow something that the first round is played in March and the final finishes in December. I understand the challenges there.
Jim Courier -
I've been designing my own pieces for a long time. My mother's a jewelry designer, so we knew at some point we were going to do a line and dive into the fashion world.
Christian Serratos -
I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series.
Jake Johnson -
Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
Taissa Farmiga -
I dropped out of school at 17 and joined the Irish band The Frames, getting my first glimpse into the world of professional film making while shooting of a number of rock videos.
John Carney