John Millington Synge Quotes
In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest-usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation-and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.John Millington Synge
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
Eddie Perez -
I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
Victoria Justice -
I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
Harmony Korine -
I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
Dacre Montgomery -
I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
Obie Trice -
I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
Fairuza Balk
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In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Hits and flops are overrated.
Kangana Ranaut -
Musical theater is one of my passions.
Patrick Wilson -
Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
Xavier Dolan -
In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
Vanessa Mae -
There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
Owen Hart
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
Pat Conroy -
I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
Imogen Cunningham -
Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
Pardis Sabeti -
Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
Larry Flynt -
The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
Maggie Hassan -
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Zane Grey
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I like to do Pilates.
Yunjin Kim -
One of the striking things about doing research on Malcolm X, and I believe that most Malcolm X researchers could tell you their own stories, is that there's this paradox of the absence of critical information.
Manning Marable -
It's been a good hockey life for me anyway.
Peter Forsberg -
Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.'
Dylan Moran -
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May Alcott -
In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest-usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation-and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.
John Millington Synge