Van Morrison Quotes

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

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• In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

  

  Edmund White
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• I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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• My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
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• There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

  

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• The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.

  

  Igor Ivanov
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• In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.

  

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• In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

  

  Imelda May
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• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
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• Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
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• A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

  

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• I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

  

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• The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

  

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• Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

  

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• Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.

  

  Lara St. John
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• Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

  

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• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
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• Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.

  

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• Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

  

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• When I want to kick it up, I like to add hardwood chips or chunks to the grill; it adds bold smoky flavors. The most common woods are hickory and mesquite, but you can find alder, apple, cherry and, my personal favorite, pecan.

  

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• In combat sports, personalities are what draw.

  

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• It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise.

  

  Jim Goetz

• I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

  

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