Nina Conti Quotes
I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house.Nina Conti
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
Ioan Gruffudd -
I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
Babe Ruth -
Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
Carly Fiorina -
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
Lane Evans -
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
Ward McAllister
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
Yahoo Serious -
Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
Jack Kroll -
By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.
Sam Graves -
There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
Taylor Swift -
You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
Laura Lang
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
Wayne Dyer -
You can forgive yourself a great deal.
Eddie Albert -
There is those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves is a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.
Kate DiCamillo -
That biological jack-of-all-trades called ecologist tries to be and do all these things. Needless to say, he does not succeed.
Aldo Leopold -
I love to sew. But when it's something that's being repetitive over and over and over again, it takes a toll.
Ashley Nell Tipton -
I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?
Eric Davis
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I want to produce the music to a movie that I'm working on, like what Prince did with 'Purple Rain.'
The Weeknd -
Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house.
Saddam Hussein -
I've always enjoyed the record shops...they gave me a reason to leave my house.
Pete Yorn -
But of course it's always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can't ever get rid of that.
Alan Vega -
With an economy that is going strong and a belief that tomorrow will be better than today, it may be easier to just shrug it off if, say, an internet service you use like WhatsApp gets turned off by the government as the Communist Party's national congress approaches.
Kristen Soltis Anderson -
I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house.
Nina Conti