John Gay Quotes
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
Jack Nicklaus -
Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
Nawal El Saadawi -
Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Larry Elder -
She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
Gail Parent -
I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
Victoria Pratt -
I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
Oscar Isaac
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
Barbara Walters -
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
Hannah Kent -
I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.
Aaron Rodgers -
The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
Samantha Barks -
The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
J. Philippe Rushton -
What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
Jack Davenport
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
Francesca Annis -
The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
Lance Burton -
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw -
Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
Taylor Swift -
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
Mandy Moore -
Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
Adam Mansbach
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
Zoe Kravitz -
Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers.
Annalee Newitz -
I grew up in suburban New York, and my family wasn't much on traveling, so when I arrived at my alma mater, The Colorado College, I'd never been out West before, seen a 14,000-foot mountain, experienced snow in 70-degree weather, or come into contact with something called a 'dude.'
Jen Sincero -
Lest men suspect your tale untrue,Keep probability in view.
John Gay