Joyce Cary Quotes
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
Owen Feltham -
I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
Sacha Guitry -
I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
Olivia Holt -
If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
Octavia Spencer
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
Zach Galifianakis -
Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
Ralph Richardson -
I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
Adam Beach -
Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
Yehuda Berg -
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Saadi -
The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
Edmund White
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I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.
Walter Kirn -
Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
Patrick Macnee -
That's hot.
Paris Hilton -
I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.
Patrice Leconte -
I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.
J. R. Celski -
So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons.
Naoto Kan
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The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.
Edwin Meese -
The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
Pamela Sargent -
A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
Jalal Talabani -
I feel that one should be health conscious, and that feeling can only come from within, so I suggest people to challenge yourself.
Adnan Sami -
THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.
Yasunari Kawabata -
The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.
Joyce Cary