Jules Verne Quotes
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
Frances McDormand -
I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
Kate Winslet -
With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
Ice Cube -
It's nice to see different dimensions of a character. A love interest and family life are always, I think, important in creating layers and textures.
Nazanin Boniadi -
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
Edmund White -
Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
Barbara Hershey
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I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
Samuel Alito -
I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
Halle Berry -
I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That's huge! That's Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.
Fat Joe -
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver -
At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
Patrick Lencioni -
It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
Danica McKellar
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Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.
J. G. Ballard -
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
Barbara Januszkiewicz -
Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
Patrick Fugit -
It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.
E. O. Wilson -
I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
Naguib Mahfouz
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The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.
Edwidge Danticat -
Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?
Sigmund Freud -
When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
Aaron Neville -
If you don't take risks in life, you'll never see anything new.
Blake Lewis -
What I'd like to be above all is a writer.
Jules Verne