Ivor Novello Quotes

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

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• We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.

  

  Sam Houston
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• Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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• In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

  

  Daniel Craig
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• I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.

  

  Jack Herer
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• Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

  

  Carl Lewis
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• Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.

  

  Calista Flockhart
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• Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send me some chocolates or something to thank me.

  

  M.I.A.
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• When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

  

  Narendra Modi
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• Some breakfast cereals only come into their own as children's party treats: what are cornflakes and Coco Pops for, if not to clump together with melted chocolate and spoon into a cupcake holder?

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being straight.

  

  Lance Loud
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• The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.

  

  Luc Montagnier
  • Live

• A lot of MTV's programming is hip-hop based, and the messages are usually all about bling bling. A lot of hip-hop artists sing about stuff that's more important, but they seldom get heard. The ones who get heard are the ones saying, 'Think about yourself. Make your money. It's all you. Everybody have a good time and party.'

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
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• You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.

  

  Eleanor Catton
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• I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.

  

  Nelson Mandela

• I'm an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he's going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we're going to have a really fun night and it's going to be really exciting. I'm really excited for him to experience that.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Children
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• The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

  

  Luc de Clapiers
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• Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It's helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word.

  

  Christy Turlington
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• Yeah, Dizzee Rascal is a huge influence on what I'm doing. I learnt a lot from him even though he's younger than me.

  

  Daniel Dewan Sewell

• I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.

  

  Miguel
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• The critical goals of solid internal controls and transparent financial reporting are better achieved by a free and unfettered capital market rather than by burdensome regulation. Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.

  

  Mallory Factor
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  • Free
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• I know where I'm supposed to be at the time of the snap. Now, where the play dictates I'm going to go is a different story.

  

  Troy Polamalu
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• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  

  Oscar Robertson
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• Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

  

  Ivor Novello
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  • Actors
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