Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes
I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
Walton Goggins -
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
Nathalie Sarraute -
I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
Harri Holkeri -
I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
Samantha Power -
The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
Earl Weaver -
I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
Rachel Sklar
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
Ziad Doueiri -
I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.
Natalie Massenet -
Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
Abraham Verghese -
I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
Sam Heughan -
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
Ovid -
As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
Sam Brownback
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
Paris Jackson -
People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.
Kate Bernheimer -
It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
Harry Browne -
I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the federal budget. Nobody, I think, sees that or would agree with that.
Ralph Norman -
I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited Nagasaki. Sadly, we know the terrible humanitarian consequences from the use of even one weapon. As long as such weapons exist, so, too, will the risks of use and proliferation.
Ban Ki-moon -
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Abbie Hoffman
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It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.
Elliott Smith -
If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.
Flannery O'Connor -
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Washington Irving -
When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness.
Charles Sanders Peirce -
I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon