Ernest Gaines Quotes
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
Nancy Pelosi
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
Haile Gebrselassie
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
Warren Spector
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
Laura Marling
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
Orison Swett Marden
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Pat Conroy
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
Patrick Kane
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
Randeep Hooda
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
Natalia Kills
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
Ovid
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
Walter Mosley
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.
Karen Elson
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I'm a normal guy.
Jack Ma
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You will always have value and nothing can change that.
Elizabeth Smart
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Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. ... Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it.
Michio Kaku
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
Wislawa Szymborska
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One of the biggest regrets of my whole career was turning down an offer to direct on the first season of 'The Wire.' That would have been so perfect for me.
John Singleton
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I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
Ernest Gaines