John le Carre Quotes
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
Salva Kiir Mayardit -
Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
Larry Flynt -
Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
Zoe Cassavetes -
I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
Laura Harrier -
I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
R. L. Stine -
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
Karl Malone -
I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
Rafael Nadal -
AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
Larry Kramer -
Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
Tadashi Yanai
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A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
Hailey Gates -
Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
Nancy Kress -
I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
Cameron Russell -
I have very eclectic tastes.
Carly Fiorina -
Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
Daniel Boone -
We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
Dalton Trumbo
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It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that.
Kyra Sedgwick -
I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me.
Parker Posey -
I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of people.
James Mangold -
Life has not been boring for me.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I haven't always been fashionable, but I've always not really cared so much about how I dress.
Ashton Moio -
Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.
John le Carre