J. P. Donleavy Quotes
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I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
Cameron Mackintosh -
I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
Gary Coleman -
If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
Eddie Murphy -
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
Orison Swett Marden -
There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
Marat Safin -
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
Baruch Spinoza
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
Pat Oliphant -
Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
Ma Jian -
There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.
Bat for Lashes -
Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
Abigail Washburn -
You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
Aaron Lazar -
It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.
Viktor Orban -
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.
H. G. Bissinger -
As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.
Victoria Principal -
I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.
Oskar Kokoschka
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
Henry David Thoreau -
Talent is only the starting point.
Irving Berlin -
I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas 'are' funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.
Joe Murray -
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
Mary Ritter Beard -
I always believe that my greatest audience will come from 70-year-old Jewish men and Jewish women, but that's me from my experience of going to High Holiday services and being adored by the women with free candy in the back.
Mark Feuerstein -
See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.
J. P. Donleavy