Tom Stoppard Quotes
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
Owen Arthur -
I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
Adam Baldwin -
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I would like to direct.
Aaron Eckhart -
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
Jackie Collins
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
Farrah Fawcett -
I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
Venus Williams -
In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
Walter Gropius -
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
Victor Davis Hanson -
I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
Dan Deacon -
I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
Valeria Golino -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
Aberjhani -
But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
Aaron Eckhart
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If you're too embarrassed and want to hide behind your computer screen, that's what this is for. It's about building confidence and that's what U by Kotex does. Girls owning their bodies and health.
Khloe Kardashian -
When it comes to how I portray myself online, I'm trying to be as real as I can and show people every side of what I do and not just put up selfies online of me in full done-up make up and stuff.
Anne-Marie -
Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.
Preston Sturges -
Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
John Green -
Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.
Tom Stoppard