Geoffrey S. Fletcher Quotes
'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.Geoffrey S. Fletcher
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch -
The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
Manika -
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Harold MacMillan -
Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
Adam Grant -
I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
Imogen Poots -
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
Felix Frankfurter -
I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
Patrick Kane -
Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
Daisy Berkowitz -
I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
Felix Dennis -
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon Hill -
What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.
Larry the Cable Guy
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
Sally Mann -
Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.
Daniel Cormier -
I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
Oona Chaplin -
There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.
Utada Hikaru -
I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
Cameron Dokey
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The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.
William Dean Howells -
I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.
Alexei Sayle -
I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
Raha Moharrak -
Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.
e. e. cummings -
'Precious' is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in 'Precious,' but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher