Larry McMurtry Quotes
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.Larry McMurtry
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
Nas -
My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
G. Willow Wilson -
Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
D. B. Sweeney -
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
Maajid Nawaz -
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
Harold Pinter -
Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
Malcolm Turnbull
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
Ian McShane -
I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
Gary Numan -
I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
Orlando Bloom -
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
Larry Wilmore -
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
Kara Walker
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
Valorie Curry -
I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.
G-Eazy -
Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
Dan Webster -
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
Karl Lagerfeld -
If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
Sam Altman
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As a samurai, I must strengthen my character; as a human being I must perfect my spirit
Yamaoka Tesshu -
I'm a great napper. I nap in a lot of places.
Bozoma Saint John -
Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.
Allan Sloan -
The majority of Afghans do not see the Americans as foreign occupiers who must be defeated. Instead, they are hungry for the Americans to step up and help them make their country safer, their government cleaner and their economy stronger. They are disappointed because the international community has done too little, not too much.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon -
Playing solo with an audience for an hour and 30 minutes without a break means I have to, as the jazz cats say, get into the shed and work on my chops.
Laurence Fishburne -
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
Larry McMurtry