Iris Murdoch Quotes
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.Iris Murdoch
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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
Dana Goodyear -
I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
Olga Kurylenko -
I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
Vera Wang -
I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
Sam Hunt -
On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.
Kat Graham -
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
Aaron Copland
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
Parker Posey -
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Malcolm X -
I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
Walter Payton -
There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
K. V. Thomas -
The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
Ursula Burns -
In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
Zhu Zhu
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There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
Samantha Mathis -
I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
Rafael Nadal -
A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
Federico Fellini -
I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.
Daniel Espinosa -
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
Fernando Pessoa
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
Olivia Colman -
I think pre-nups are brilliant. I get very well taken care of.
Catherine Zeta-Jones -
I strongly agree with Vice President Gore that we cannot drill our way to energy independence, but must fast-track investments in renewable sources of energy like solar power, wind power and advanced biofuels...
Barack Obama -
From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.
Hugo Black -
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
David Lodge -
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
Iris Murdoch