Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
Candice Swanepoel -
No man may make another free.
Zora Neale Hurston -
All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
Ralph Bakshi -
I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.
Omari Hardwick -
It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
Taylor Swift -
I don't like to play the victim.
Barry Pepper
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My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.
Ian Hart -
I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
Najib Mikati -
As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
Carli Lloyd -
I'm not a negative person.
Ian Somerhalder -
One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to without feeling guilty.
Damon Knight -
If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That's my job, like your job is to do what you do.
Eddie Marsan
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
Gabriel Mann -
Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail really doesn't matter - it's the trying that counts.
Aaron Sorkin -
I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis.
Cy Twombly -
I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.
Brunello Cucinelli -
Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.
James Gleick -
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.
Kenko Yoshida
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When you're nice, you're not bullying people. But when you're kind, you stand up against the bully.
Daniel Lubetzky -
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck -
Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.
Kevin Crossley-Holland -
In real life, I go to the North Shore with my kids for two weeks each summer, and it's a magical place for us. I feel restored there and connected to the ancient, pre - human world in a way that no place else on Earth does for me.
Dean Bakopoulos -
Any woman that is willing to take control of their life and do what they want to do to make their living, I have a lot of respect for.
Kristen Renton -
I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.
Melissa de la Cruz