Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
Kate Bernheimer -
Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
Youssef Ziedan -
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
Barnett Newman -
A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
Nancy Reagan -
I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
Quentin Tarantino -
There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
Oscar Isaac
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
Wanda Sykes -
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Napoleon Hill -
Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
Nathan Myhrvold -
Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
Mara Brock Akil
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
Laura Mvula -
Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
Mahershala Ali -
When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
Laura Esquivel -
I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
Patrick Wilson -
People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
Iman -
I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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Those who only know England know not England.
Rudyard Kipling -
I was born in 1973, so I did not see 'Alien' when it was released theatrically. I saw 'Alien' when it was on Home Box Office. I think I was probably 10.
Damon Lindelof -
Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
William Cowper -
No curfew. I live in the basement. I got everything I need. Home cooking ... it's awesome.
Mike Trout -
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
Henry Ward Beecher