Milan Kundera Quotes
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
Flume -
Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
Bai Ling -
The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
Victoria Abril -
I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.
Caitriona Balfe -
It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
E. L. Doctorow
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
Famke Janssen -
The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.
Ed Smith -
I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.
Patrick Wilson -
My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching one of three movies - 'Caddyshack,' 'Animal House,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' - on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching 'Sesame Street': these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.
Teddy Sears -
Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
Pat Gillick -
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
Ralph Nader
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
Kara Swisher -
I was 16 when I started modelling. It wasn't planned, but nothing in my life has or ever will be planned.
Nargis Fakhri -
Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.
Warren Beatty -
Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.
Ian Fleming -
I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.
Malala Yousafzai -
Each morning, you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.
Carine Roitfeld
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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
J. Courtney Sullivan -
But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by the cloth, for we have run to fat, and wrinkles encircle the eyes and notch the neck where the skin wattles, and the flesh of the arms hangs loose like an overlarge sleeve, veins thicken like ropes and empurple the body as though they had been drawn there by a pen, freckles darken, liver spots appear, the hairah, the hair is exhausted and gray and lusterless, in weary rolls like cornered lint.
William H. Gass -
The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
Randall Munroe -
If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.
Pamela Anderson -
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
C. Everett Koop -
Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
Milan Kundera