John Hillcoat Quotes
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
Jack Straw -
After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
Becki Newton -
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
Rachel McAdams -
Papa died when he was 77.
Manolo Blahnik -
My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
Maggie Smith
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
Rafael dos Anjos -
During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
Rachel Swirsky -
I don't want to hear about my death.
Oriana Fallaci -
To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
J. G. Ballard -
When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
Ted Cruz -
The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
Adam McKay
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
Felicity Jones -
Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
Naomi Watts -
The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
Victoria Moran -
I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.
Karl Rove -
We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
Harold S. Geneen -
I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
Sammy Cahn
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Read books. They are good for us.
Natalie Goldberg -
In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy... I will be part of President Obama's efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform agenda.
Ken Salazar -
You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
Bear Grylls -
Every wedding is slightly different from the other. But you always get to meet the funny uncle and the weirdo relatives, and there's always someone trying to beat you up for not playing enough Beatles songs or something.
Jens Lekman -
Film has its own innate poetry.
John Hillcoat