Sidney Poitier Quotes
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Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.
Nargis Fakhri -
When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
Sam Shepard -
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
Wallace Shawn -
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
W. Somerset Maugham -
One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
Samm Levine -
I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
Samuel L. Jackson
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
Kaitlyn Dever -
This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
Ian Hislop -
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund Burke -
I can't stand recipes that don't have background.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.
Kapil Sibal
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I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'
Ian Mckellen -
The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
Warren Farrell -
We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
Victoria Moran -
It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.
Keegan-Michael Key -
To me, a multi-cam is just like the feeling you get from the audience.
Cristela Alonzo -
I love making music, though. I love playing.
Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
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Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.'
Ellen Stofan -
If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It’s like having peas and no pod.
Keali'i Reichel -
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
Van Morrison -
I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.
Imelda May -
In Evita I wasn't really hugely involved with it. I gave a little bit of help but they needed a bit of technical help on the movie and so some of my music people went in at the end of the movie and helped out with it.
Andrew Lloyd Webber -
I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.
Sidney Poitier