Isabella Rossellini Quotes
I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.Isabella Rossellini
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
Ian Mckellen -
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow -
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
Uma Thurman -
It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
Sally Mann -
I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.
Nazanin Boniadi -
I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
T. C. Boyle
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
T. S. Eliot -
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
E. F. Schumacher -
Conservation of energy also protects our environment.
Lamar S. Smith -
I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
Carine Roitfeld -
Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
Pat Buchanan -
I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
Daisy Berkowitz
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The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.
Vicki Lawrence -
Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.
Mal Peet -
Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.
P. G. Wodehouse -
A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.
Bertrand Russell -
Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.
Mark Shriver
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
Karan Johar -
For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to every one else.
Anthony Trollope -
Over the years, TV has gotten so much better, especially with the advent of cable. The bar has been raised. I think HBO really set the standard with 'The Sopranos,' and then on mainstream TV, shows like 'Lost' broke amazing ground.
Nestor Carbonell -
NSS has strongly supported competition in both the NASA Commercial Re-supply Services program and the Commercial Crew program.
Bruce Pittman -
I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
Isabella Rossellini