Wendell Berry Quotes
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
Edmund White -
Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
Rami Malek -
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
A. R. Ammons -
The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
Laura Linney -
Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
Nargis Fakhri -
I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
Harri Holkeri
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
Earl Weaver -
Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
Beck Bennett -
If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
Laura Wade -
I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
Patrick Macnee
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
Malik Jackson -
Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.
Florence Nightingale -
Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
Abraham Verghese -
Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.
Dan Aykroyd -
My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'
Action Bronson -
You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.
Vic Morrow
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
Marat Safin -
It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
Jack O'Brien -
I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
Pamela Stephenson -
There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.
Aaron Diehl -
I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.
Amanda Lindhout -
A mind that has confronted ruin for years Is half or more a ruined mind.
Wendell Berry