John Vinocur Quotes
No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.John Vinocur
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
Zach Braff -
I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
Naomie Harris -
I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
Sam Shepard -
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
Viggo Mortensen -
I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
Dan Fogler -
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
Xun Kuang
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
Jack Nicklaus -
In the future, I want to have super-fights.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
Iris Johansen -
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
Jack Henry Abbott -
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
Jackie Kennedy -
Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
Gary Sherman
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
Dan Millman -
If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
Tamora Pierce -
Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
E. F. Benson -
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
Saint Ambrose -
There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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I sign on to any project because of the director: because they won't change, and you've got to feel confident that you're in good hands, in their vision.
Sam Worthington -
Take charity work for example; the motivation of my various charitable activities is neither for fame nor profits. It is my sincere wish that, through my efforts, more people can realize how important it is to protect our planet and to start to act for a change.
Li Bingbing -
I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A.
Tom Hayden -
A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.
Kazuaki Tanahashi -
No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.
John Vinocur