Joyce Grenfell Quotes
Ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.Joyce Grenfell
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
Fiona Apple -
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?
Gary Bauer -
I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.
Valerie Plame -
I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
Aaron Sorkin -
The IronClad is faster than most thumb drives but far slower than a standard hard drive. Boot up, application launch and other Windows operations feel sluggish, though still usable.
Barton Gellman
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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
Carl Sandburg -
I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
Girls run the world.
Quavo Migos -
I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
Damien Chazelle -
The reasons why a player is better on one club than on another are many. I certainly am not an expert and can't explain.
Rabih Alameddine -
For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
Wendell Berry
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If I wasn't a model, I would never have been around interesting musicians, even had the financial capabilities to say, 'I don't have to work right now. I can sit and make my record.'
Karen Elson -
There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.
Yair Lapid -
Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.
Ada Yonath -
I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.
Val Kilmer -
If I have several bad guys and I only want to end up with one of them, then I have to decide which one I want in the end. And normally it's the one who is the most interesting talker.
Elmore Leonard -
Practice is a shared history of learning. Practice is conversational. 'Communities of Practice' are groups of people who share a concern (domain) or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better (practice) as they interact regularly (community).
Etienne Wenger
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The more we abandon ill-will and hatred, the easier it will be to meditate.
Ayya Khema -
But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
Jack Markell -
Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.
Wesley Pruden -
Ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.
Joyce Grenfell