Amelia Barr Quotes
When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.Amelia Barr
Quotes to Explore
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson -
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss -
You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
Rachel Brosnahan -
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
Mac Davis -
With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
Aaron Sorkin
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
Imre Kertesz -
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
Jack Kornfield -
I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
Vera Farmiga -
My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
Ranbir Kapoor -
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning -
I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
Caitlin Rose
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My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.
Oriana Fallaci -
I channel surf like probably most people.
Ed O'Neill -
When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
Sammy Sosa -
What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.
Rachel Sklar -
But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.
Olivier Martinez -
My parents really encouraged me.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
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The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.
W. H. Auden -
A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
Jose Marti -
A relationship cannot survive the test of time without trust.
Gabrielle Dennis -
I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.
FKA twigs -
Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
William Shakespeare -
When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.
Amelia Barr