Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes
My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
Randee Heller -
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
Irwin Corey -
All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
Isaac Hayes -
I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
Aaron Schock -
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
S. J. Perelman -
I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
Viggo Mortensen
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
Tahl Raz -
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
Taylor Swift -
People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot tub. Everybody puts on a bathing suit and we splash around.
Paget Brewster -
Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
Rachel Stevens -
My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
Jackie Jackson The Jacksons -
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
A. N. Wilson
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
Maajid Nawaz -
A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
Calista Flockhart -
My role models have kept on changing.
Kapil Dev -
Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
J. G. Ballard -
If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.
Ian Mckellen -
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
E. M. Forster
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The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.
Jose Mujica -
The joy I get from work is just huge.
Lucy Davis -
A man who overindulges lives in a dream. He becomes conceited. He thinks the whole world revolves around him; and it usually does.
W. C. Fields -
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
Orrin Hatch -
You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
James Whistler -
My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon