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• There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Chance
  • Period
  • Scared

• When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Myself
  • Eye

• Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.

  

  Harold Edward Holt
  • Unique
  • Trees
  • Gum

• Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Love
  • Art
  • Beauty

• I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Book
  • Serious
  • Better

• When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Circumstances
  • I Can
  • Crowd

• I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
  • Wall
  • New

• I'm the curvy one of the family.

  

  Elizabeth Olsen
  • Family

• I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.

  

  Bernice Johnson Reagon
  • People
  • Different
  • Experience

• This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.

  

  Placido Domingo
  • Career
  • Beginning

• My first audition was for a Dr. Pepper commercial.

  

  Krysten Ritter

• Something that's interesting is how my perspective on different events can change over time even though the events themselves haven't changed. As I get older, I interpret something differently, or I can even interpret a person differently.

  Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Time
  • Different
  • Interesting

• Marriage fascinates me: how we negotiate its span, how we change within it, how it changes itself, and why some relationships survive and others do not. There isn't a single marriage that couldn't provide enough narrative arc for a novel.

  

  David Ebershoff
  • Why
  • Single
  • Marriage

• Most of the TV shows I've done have all been in the U.S.

  

  Linus Roache
  • Done

• I've rewritten a lot of the scripts I've done. 'Little Shop Of Horrors' was a complete rewrite, but I didn't touch the dialogue. Essentially, I'm a very good editor.

  

  Frank Oz
  • Good
  • Done

• Everything happens in the kitchen. Life happens in the kitchen.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • Life
  • Kitchen

• I don't know if we will ever try again because those sort of things are very hard to organise but yes, I've known Doon for years and John as well but I hadn't met Will before, and he turned out to be a good laugh.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Good

• And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

  

  Anna Friel
  • Good
  • Important
  • Character

• The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Great
  • Society
  • Church

• For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.

  

  Plato
  • God
  • Poet
  • Ministers

• I appreciate my brother, His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the U.A.E. and Ruler of Dubai, and the Council of Ministers, who face every morning challenges, but plan and remove all obstacles to score achievements.

  

  Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
  • Challenges
  • Appreciate
  • Achievements

• My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Book
  • History
  • Man

• We agreed that it is not possible for ministers to order the judiciary around.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Ministers
  • Judiciary