Melvil Dewey Quotes
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Melvil Dewey
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Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.
Caity Lotz
I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
Rachel Sklar
It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
Edmund White
I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.
Zack Greinke
When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.
Garry Trudeau
My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.
Laura Benanti
What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
Ben Carson
I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.
Jimmy Swaggart
I've been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started taking karate and mixed martial arts.
Daniella Alonso
I always look for the character that gets into your guts and tells you, 'You have to play this.' You have to be brave enough to let everything else go and let the character guide you. When I read a script, I look for that kind of pull.
Colin Morgan
I always wanted to win. Everyone has a bit of that in them, but I have even more of a will to win. Sometimes I might go overboard, whereas there are others who, yes, they want to win, but if they don't, it's no big deal for them.
Diego Costa
I sure can't do television. The screen is only 24 inches. How are they ever gonna get someone like me in that little box?
John Matuszak
Is it possible that love should of a sudden take such a hold?
William Shakespeare
I'm more focused on giving solutions and inspiration more than anything.
Nipsey Hussle
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.
Vincent Van Gogh
To study the nude, the foundation of all pictorial art, in total freedom and naturalness. From.. ..this basis there emerged the feeling, shared by all, of taking creative stimulus from life itself and submitting to the decisive experience.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and recreation on the highest plane. If a better way than the books is found we should use it.
Melvil Dewey
