John Dryden Quotes
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
Carl Sandburg -
You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
Nadia Giosia -
Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
Pankaj Mishra -
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
A. S. Byatt -
There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
Oscar Isaac -
I myself am a former commando fighter.
Naftali Bennett
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
Zadie Smith -
For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
Macaulay Culkin -
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
Tallulah Bankhead -
I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
Malcolm Forbes
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
Natalie Dormer -
I get to meet different directors and different people.
Quvenzhane Wallis -
Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
Tariq Ramadan -
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
Viggo Mortensen -
I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
Laura Carmichael
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Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.
Geoffrey Canada -
I must admit that i am fascinated by the glories of ancient India. But when will the purveyors of Indian culture realise that not everything about our past was glorious?
Ashwin Sanghi -
Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
Walter F. Mondale -
There's no point daydreaming about what you want to play, because there might never be a script with that part in.
Katherine Kelly -
I'm not a snob. If I feel like there's a star that's the best person for that role, then that's who I get.
Steven Soderbergh -
Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.
John Dryden