Quintus Curtius Rufus Quotes
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
Garrett Dillahunt -
We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
Samantha Power -
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
Jack White The White Stripes -
I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
Dan Marino -
I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
Daniel Gilbert -
With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
Felix Dennis
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I am a very selfish person.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
Samuel E. Morison -
I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
Patricia Velasquez -
In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
Abbie Cornish -
On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
Ingrid Betancourt -
There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
Ira Glass
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
Abraham Maslow -
You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
Callie Khouri -
Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
Federica Mogherini -
All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
Maelle Gavet -
My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.
Yair Lapid -
The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
Malcolm Wilson
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New schools, hospitals, clinics, factories, bridges, dams, and airports tell the story of a South Africa that has indeed moved forward.
Cyril Ramaphosa -
The process was remarkably cathartic. I'd sit and listen to my father's voice - having not heard some of these tapes for 30 years and hearing his voice laying me down for a nap, our giggles and cooking dinner - and I remembered all those wonderful days. Normal days.
Jennifer Grant -
I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow.
Donnie Yen -
I've been blessed enough to be on a great team, gone to the divisional round five years in a row or whatever it was. That's special. Not everybody gets an opportunity to do that.
Doug Baldwin -
When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.
Al Pacino -
Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.
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