R. A. Lafferty Quotes
"Strangers may not lodge complaints till they have been in residence here for ninety days," the Cacique said, "and no stranger has ever remained with us that long." "My complaint won't hold for ninety days. I accuse you people of eating men."R. A. Lafferty
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
Madchen Amick -
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
Edith Wharton -
Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
Laura Dern -
Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
Malala Yousafzai -
Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
Madhuri Dixit -
Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
Karan Singh Grover -
Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
Natalie Gulbis -
Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
Jack Germond
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
Cameron Crowe -
I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
Ottessa Moshfegh -
That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
Zach Galifianakis -
You want your partner to objectify you.
Patricia Arquette -
I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
Fiona Apple -
Fun opens the doors to creativity, which then leads to inspiration, which then births passion, which all together equals both happiness and success!
Rachele Brooke Smith
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Don't let your prayers turn into a wish list for Santa Claus. Worship God and praise him when you come to him in prayer.
Bill Hybels -
For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it’s safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that’s still likely to be the last thing you ever do.
Joanne Rowling -
The Jemaine [Clement] and Taika works is a very long and slow machine - we put an idea in one end, and it takes about six years to come out the other end. And sometimes it doesn't even come out. And sometimes it comes out as a different idea. So we've out the idea of We're Wolves into the machine, and it's now slowly going through the sausage maker.
Taika Waititi -
It's not good enough to just keep producing technology with no notion of whether it's going to be useful. You have to create stuff that people really want, rather than create stuff just because you can.
Genevieve Bell -
I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.
Zhang Yimou -
"Strangers may not lodge complaints till they have been in residence here for ninety days," the Cacique said, "and no stranger has ever remained with us that long." "My complaint won't hold for ninety days. I accuse you people of eating men."
R. A. Lafferty