Sidney Lumet (Sidney Arthur Lumet) Quotes
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
Vikram Seth -
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
Natasha Little -
I do not cook.
Edie Falco -
There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.
P. J. O'Rourke -
My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.
Natalia Kills
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Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.
Sam Graves -
Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
E. Y. Harburg -
The thing that's going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn, and the way AI learns is to look at human culture.
Dan Brown -
I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.
Madchen Amick -
War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.
Kate Adie -
I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.
Rachel Dratch
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I think the song itself, 'Smoke and Fire,' is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship.
Sabrina Carpenter -
In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being straight.
Lance Loud -
A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise manĀ“s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.
Dalai Lama -
I made nothing happen very slowly.
Gary McCord -
Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
Alan Rickman -
I always knew I was a hit record just waiting to happen.
Oprah Winfrey