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Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?

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• I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Knowledge
  • Movies
  • Legacy

• I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• I really hate to write.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Hate
  • Write
  • Really

• Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • People
  • Work
  • Girl

• Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Control

• On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Love
  • Help

• I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Moral
  • My Life

• If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Wine
  • Drink
  • Champagne

• To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Happy
  • Airplane

• I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Personality

• Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Living

• I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Long
  • See
  • Humble

• I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • People
  • Way
  • Nothing

• Like so many women, especially military women, I waited to have children.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Women
  • Children
  • Military

• Perfectionists are their own devils.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Own
  • Devils
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• I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Funny
  • They Say

• Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Ornament
  • Graceful

• I am so looking forward to it. I made sure I had a strong foundation before I became pregnant and I think that's the most important thing. There were a lot of things that I wanted to do personally so that when the time came, I really knew who I was and could be the best mother.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Courage
  • Creative
  • Executives

• 'HIM' is much more of a British, coming-of-age series, while 'Stranger Things' is very obviously a sci-fi drama.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • Age
  • Things
  • Drama

• Some things are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Things
  • Forgotten
  • Disappear

• The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson..... have taught man to look within himself to find God.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Genuis

• Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?

  

  Socrates
  • Things
  • Opposites
  • Generated