Nick Flynn Quotes
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The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.
Cal Hubbard -
I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
Otto Preminger -
In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.
A. S. Byatt -
I've never really considered packing my suitcase and heading to Hollywood.
Carice van Houten -
Jimmy Grants is my first stop every time I go home to Australia. They make the best souvlakis you have ever tasted.
Mallory Jansen -
In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.
Abbey Lee Kershaw
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Way to go, New York. One people. One planet. One love.
Alyssa Milano -
If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.
Jason Aldean -
I have a very great respect for Americans, and having been a correspondent in this country, and I believe that Americans are people who respond much better to facts and truthful, genuine speculation, than they do to purely, kind of phoney, adulation.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
I always believe that my films should give some hope to the man who comes to watch them for those three hours. If he goes home on an optimistic note, I would feel satisfied at having done my duty.
Yash Chopra -
I was always, and I still am to a certain extent, one of those lazy people who spends a lot of time with Italian friends and yet constantly says I don't speak Italian. Things slow down when I start speaking Italian.
Tilda Swinton -
Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura.
William Faulkner -
I adore the company of other writers because they are so often lively minds and, frequently, blazingly funny. And of course, we get each other in a unique way.
Scott Turow -
Most sex is not really intimate.
Erica Jong -
Within three hundred years Jesus went from being a Jewish apocalyptic prophet to being God himself, a member of the Trinity. Early Christianity is nothing if not remarkable. HEAVEN
Bart Ehrman -
You must remember that you're never going to be sexy for everyone. You are sexy for someone and for someone alse you are not. Being totally nude is not sexy. The art of being sexy is to suggest. To let people have fantasy.
Jacqueline de Ribes -
I'm supposed to be famous, but I don't think I like it so much.
Caster Semenya