William Davenant (D'Avenant) Quotes
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
Karen Fairchild Little Big Town -
I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
Edgar Meyer -
The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
I. M. Pei -
Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
Adam Hamilton -
People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
Barbara Mandrell
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
Lafcadio Hearn -
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
Ian McShane -
It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing.
Patrick Kane -
Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
Rachel Platten -
Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
Pamela Adlon -
I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
Abhishek Bachchan
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
Malala Yousafzai -
I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
Dan Hill -
My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
Madeleine Albright -
I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
Yair Lapid -
We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
Patricia Heaton -
I have hair that looks like you could just take it off and plug a new style on.
Kate Micucci
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Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
Zadie Smith -
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
H. G. Wells -
I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
Rachel McAdams -
The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.
Andy Greenwald -
For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least.
William Davenant