Michael Ovitz Quotes
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith -
If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
Mae West -
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
Abbie Hoffman -
It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
Aaron Levie -
'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
Floyd Skloot -
I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
Kangana Ranaut
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
Carlo Goldoni -
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
Flannery O'Connor -
I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
Ian Mckellen -
The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
Joanne Rowling -
I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table.
Hillary Clinton -
Just think about the game. Think about playing great, having a great time. Helping my team win.
Deion Sanders
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I want to know who is spending $1,000 on a sweater! That makes no sense!
Emily Ratajkowski -
I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,' starring Daniel Henney and Bill Paxton. I actually had to speak Chinese in the film. It was funny because I found out I was doing the film and then a week later, I was in Shanghai.
Eliza Coupe -
In some ways, in 'The Queen of the Night,' I'm writing about some of the experience that I had with 'Edinburgh' where I was entirely unable to speak about what had happened to me as a child, but I could read from the novel.
Alexander Chee -
I get along fine with the press.
Kevin Pietersen -
I don't care if I put people off.
Paul Watson -
Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.
James Bovard
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I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Sound of Music,' and my mum's an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn't find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.
Alicia Vikander -
I must be intellectually honest and say there is a great justice deficit among us. Not all Brazilians are treated equally.
Joaquim Barbosa -
And I honor the man who is willing to sinkHalf his present repute for the freedom to think,And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak, Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in store, Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower.
James Russell Lowell -
You get to a point where everything is so important. One day you have 'Letterman,' and the next day you're at the MTV Movie Awards, and the next day you have a sold-out show for over 15,000 people. You can't cancel anything, because it's just too much to let everyone down, which is an interesting thing about being in a bigger band.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.
Andrew Davies -
The unknown is always interesting.
Michael Ovitz