Ernest Shackleton Quotes
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
Gary Ross -
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
Walter Scott -
I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
Damien Chazelle -
I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
Wally Schirra -
If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
Ralph Fiennes -
I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
Patricia Velasquez
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
Aaron Swartz -
I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
Patrick Rothfuss -
I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
Manny Pacquiao -
If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
Ralph Nader -
I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.
Usain Bolt
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I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.
Adam Driver -
My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
Sam Heughan -
Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.
Gabourey Sidibe -
The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.
Camille Paglia -
Frazer's account of the magical and religious views of mankind is unsatisfactory; it makes these views look like errors.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?'
Robert Dwayne Womack
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New York has everything, so you can do anything.
Dan Amboyer -
I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
Malorie Blackman -
The less concerned with aesthetics and usability these friends and family members are, the more easily they navigate sites and applications I can't make head nor hair of. Like the ex-girlfriend who mastered Ebay.
Jeffrey Zeldman -
Optimism is the true moral courage.
Ernest Shackleton