N. K. Jemisin Quotes
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
Samantha Bee -
I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
Sam Worthington -
I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
Rachel Joyce -
Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
Viggo Mortensen -
What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
Walter Annenberg -
I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
Laura Dern
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I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
Cameron van der Burgh -
I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
Nas -
A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
Queen Latifah -
Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
Dak Prescott -
Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
Pankaj Mishra -
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
Manuel Puig
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
Ice Cube -
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
Walter Smith -
I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
Cameron Diaz -
I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
J. K. Simmons -
I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
Gary Ross -
I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
Zach Gilford
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I love the energy over here in the U.K., the hospitality is insane.
Flo Rida -
For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
Octavio Paz -
If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.
Joan Fontaine -
My kids, they're my energy, my soul, and my nicest friend.
Johnny Depp -
Coffee is a kind of magic you can drink.
Catherynne M. Valente -
I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
N. K. Jemisin