Van Day Truex Quotes
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
Feist -
Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.
Olympia Snowe -
There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
Edgar Wright -
Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
Dan Aykroyd -
Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
Rachel Kushner -
Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
Ted Rall
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I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
Dane Cook -
The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
Randall Terry -
I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
Maajid Nawaz -
I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
O. J. Simpson -
For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
Felix Dennis -
In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
Ian Mckellen
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
Sabrina Carpenter -
I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
Mahesh Babu -
Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
Ada Yonath -
When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
Jack McDevitt -
It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
Valentina Tereshkova -
Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we grew up in Dalkey, a little town 10 miles outside of Dublin. It was a secure, safe and happy childhood, which was meant to be a disadvantage when it comes to writing stories about family dramas.
Maeve Binchy -
My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.
Gary Bettman -
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression.
John Locke Nazareth -
Uniforms ruin every character
Max Frisch -
Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.
Marlo Thomas -
Good design is forever.
Van Day Truex