Sherman Alexie Quotes
The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.Sherman Alexie
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
Victoria Pratt -
So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
Walter Salles -
This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
Victoria Justice -
Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
Karin Slaughter -
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
Dan Savage
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Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
Ed Westwick -
People can be slave-ships in shoes.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I've been racketeered on.
Randy Quaid -
I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
Tatjana Patitz -
I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. Wilson
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My parents have sailed around the world; they know what can happen and that it's not always fun, but because I want to do it so much, they agreed and supported me.
Laura Dekker -
Was die Menschen unter den andern Bildungen der Erde, das sind die Künstler unter den Menschen.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.
Kristin Scott Thomas -
Democracy derailed is democracy denied.
Chaka Fattah -
People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
Marina Abramovic -
Like so much in Singapore, admission to the Marina Bay's casino is hierarchical: Free for anyone with an international passport, costly for locals, off-limits to migrant workers altogether.
Alan Huffman
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If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
James D. Watson -
I don't need to publish to make a living.
Joanne Rowling -
Weisinger, a couple of years ago, made up the following story: 'Isaac Asimov was asked how Superman could fly faster than the speed of light, which was supposed to be an absolute limit. To this Asimov replied, 'That the speed of light is a limit is a theory; that Superman can travel faster than light is a fact.''
Isaac Asimov -
But politics demands, in the interests of each separate nation, guarantees for its independence and continued existence, special regulations to help its progress in culture, prosperity, and power, to build its society into a perfectly complete and harmoniously developed body politic, self-contained and independent.
Friedrich List -
Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.
Ben Shneiderman -
The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.
Sherman Alexie