Baden Powell Quotes
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
Victoria Principal -
I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
Harold Pinter -
I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
Larry Hovis -
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen -
I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
Paloma Faith -
The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
Ranbir Kapoor
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
Patrick deWitt -
We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!
Mandy Moore -
This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
Olivia Wilde -
I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
Taissa Farmiga -
With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
Rafael Palmeiro -
I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
Kajal Aggarwal
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I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.
Rachel Weisz -
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Quentin Crisp -
There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
Aaron Johnson -
In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
Zaha Hadid -
You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
Tadashi Yanai -
When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
Manny Pacquiao -
I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.
Pico Iyer -
Sure, the job of high school teachers is not to tear down students' self-esteem. But it's certainly not to inflate students' sense of self-worth with a bunch of unearned compliments and half-truths.
LZ Granderson -
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
Lionel Blue -
We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.
Baden Powell