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I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

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• A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Simple

• Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • People
  • Good
  • Quality

• My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Father

• Once you're on the wheel, you don't come off.

  

  Ian St. John
  • You
  • Once
  • Wheel

• Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Everything
  • Results
  • Strive

• I'm married to a white man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest white child with blonde hair and blue eyes. And I'm like, 'Omigosh, now what am I going to do?' She has my mom's features and is lighter than my husband. And my boy is browner than I am. Brown eyes and really tan.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • She
  • Eyes
  • Mom

• The Bookshop has a thousand books,

  

  Nancy Byrd Turner
  • Book
  • Color
  • Doors

• I'm a mix of a 14-year-old high schooler and a 60-year-old guy. It can never fall into the 30s or the 40s. It has to be 100 percent 60 or 100 percent 14, no in between.

  

  Kanye West
  • High
  • Guy
  • Fall

• I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made a mistake with that assumption. It was really, really hard because you pull a few things apart and then you realise how everything relies on everything else and it can all fall apart.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Fall
  • Mistake
  • Assumption

• It changed the game right there. He always seems to make the big plays when we need them.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Game
  • Changed
  • Plays

• Big night of television tonight for Barack Obama. Earlier tonight, Barack Obama aired a half-hour infomercial to attract more voters. Yeah. Yeah, and apparently, if you watched the entire infomercial, Barack threw in a free set of Ginsu knives for you.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Night
  • Free
  • Television

• I am thrilled. I love movies. I don't have those nagging, regretful feelings about either of them, it is a miracle.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Miracle

• I know. And that's what took me so long.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Long
  • Know
  • Took

• In all teaching there must be a fusion of authority as an adult providing a stable framework for the children in one's care, and humility as another human being ready to educate an equal who may turn out to be a superior.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Children
  • May
  • Humility

• You know, the key issue is that city issues are not to be put in a box and say well, that's what the mayor wants. They're Canadian issues. Cities account for 75 percent of our GDP. If you don't have a plan for cities, it means you don't have a plan for the economy.

  

  Naheed Nenshi
  • City

• Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.

  

  Peter Brook
  • Understanding
  • Drama
  • Theatre

• A lot of people have been overexposed. Where people are fed up. I pray that that never happens with me.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • People
  • Pray
  • Fed Up

• We ought to take good care of everybody we have on the planet, but we ought to regulate the rate at which people join us. The old saying is, "It's the top of the ninth inning, and humanity has been hitting nature hard, but you've always got to remember that nature bats last."

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • People
  • Remember
  • Humanity

• It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Way

• I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

  

  Sarah Waters
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