William Collins Quotes
Not to say that authors are all such sourpusses, but you meet the author in the best possible way, on the written page. I am at my best there, more patient, more thoughtful.William Collins
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
Ophelia Lovibond -
Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
Maajid Nawaz -
My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
Natalie Cole -
Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
Dana Carvey -
There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
Rachel Weisz -
I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
Carlton Cuse
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
Rafael dos Anjos -
A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
Naomi Judd -
If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
Fannie Lou Hamer -
I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
Bebe Rexha -
Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
Malala Yousafzai -
What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
Imre Kertesz
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As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
Aaron Sorkin -
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
P. J. O'Rourke -
All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
Tamara Tunie -
I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
Ian Hart -
My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
Gary Oldman -
If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.
Foster Friess
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Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.
Ted Kotcheff -
Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
J. Cole -
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
Gary Zukav -
I think what really separates artists from the rest of the world is that artists feel like they have permission to keep exploring and expressing their process. Most people censor that because they don't think it's good enough. Everything is measured against this patriarchal hierarchy of value, as if one person's singing voice is more important than another's.
Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons -
For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.
Reginald Maudling -
Not to say that authors are all such sourpusses, but you meet the author in the best possible way, on the written page. I am at my best there, more patient, more thoughtful.
William Collins