Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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Once I finish shooting, I head straight home and spend time with my family. It's only when I have to promote my films that I make public appearances.
Mahesh Babu -
Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
Iris Apfel -
'Freaky Ali' is not a heavy film. It's a simple but inspiring film. It will inspire those who want to go from zero to hundred. People who have made an effort to achieve success from nothing will be able to connect to the character.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
Gautam Gambhir -
I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.
Ralph Fiennes -
Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
Hanna Rosin
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Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
Walter Murch -
I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.
Tamsin Greig -
For an actor to have the chance to go and play something that's far away from yourself, physically and also in terms of personality, character, is so much fun.
Taron Egerton -
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran Lebowitz -
Despite all these obstacles and bad security situation, I have the energy and the resolve to train, but my head is full of ideas and it distracts me, and I need to focus.
Dana Hussein -
Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity- * * * * * *That is not quickly buzz'd into his ears?
Vanity
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The truth of the matter is, I am a black woman, and I am an actor. I don't try to get caught up in being a black actor; I'm just an actor who is a black woman. It's not about forgetting that you're black, but you don't need to be hammered over the head, either; it just is what it is.
Condola Rashad -
In good writing, the contemplative and the exciting happen at the same time.
Dave Morris -
For me, nothing is old. I don't know why. If a dress is beautiful, and it's very personal, I think it can live forever.
Alessandro Michele -
In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn't work for the longest time.
Patti LuPone -
It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.
John Baldessari -
I used the stormy gray and heather brown shadows from the Lilac Rose Eye Palette to create a soft smokey eye for Veronica Beard's Spring 2013 show. The look was dramatic but delicate.
Bobbi Brown
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He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.
Max Beerbohm -
I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.
Jennifer Weiner -
The great challenge is finding ways to reset their physiology, so that their survival mechanisms stop working against them.
Bessel van der Kolk -
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
Kailash Satyarthi -
My creative process isn't a long one, so I could have started a song 10 years ago and then finish it 10 years later. It's all just about pushing around words and melodies, for me. The material is kind of shape-shifting.
Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons -
The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.
Terence McKenna