Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes
Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.Ivy Compton-Burnett
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
Jack Vance -
Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
Gary Hamel -
Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
Karl Liebknecht -
A closed mind is a dying mind.
Edna Ferber -
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
Hannah Murray -
I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.
Kaley Cuoco -
The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.
Sally Field -
A million years went by quick.
Carlton Fisk -
When you boil down the real facts and statistics of what carbon dioxide is doing to this planet... to not feel like you have to do something... I don't think you're human.
A. J. Buckley -
I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'
Kat Graham
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
Eartha Kitt -
Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.
Charles Koch -
The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.
David F. Houston -
I'm not usually absolutely speechless.
Charlie Sykes -
Because you can't change results - I would change my losses, and I would definitely like to see on-court coaching.
Brad Gilbert -
The characters, to me, in 'Homeland' are not one note in any way.
Lesli Linka Glatter
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Those who achieve happiness understand the basic fact that regardless of how much fun you're having or how many things you accomplish, life through the lens of history is incredibly short.
Ian K. Smith -
I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means somebody has to make an excuse for it. If it's 'cult,' it gives it a sense of illegitimate legitimacy.
Leon Redbone -
Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
Callum McDougall -
Since I have possessed a 'Wonderland Stamp Case', Life has been bright and peaceful, and I have used no other. I believe the Queen's laundress uses no other.
Lewis Carroll -
I never had that moment, because we’ve been shocked and surprised and happy at every level along the way. But I’d say the first time I noticed that feeling was literally our second show.
Ken Casey -
Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
Ivy Compton-Burnett