Alan Plater Quotes
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'
Jack Ramsay -
I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
Otis Blackwell -
Bullies always have another target.
Karen Handel
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In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top would go - but that doesn't seem to be the case with FIFA.
Gary Lineker -
There's always going to be someone out there who doesn't like what you do, doesn't like your style, your face. That's part of life. But I feed off that. I don't think I'd be where I am today if it wasn't for that. It puts a little fire in the belly, keeps me going so I can prove so many people wrong.
Olly Murs -
Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.
Natalia Vodianova -
Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
Jack Nicholson -
I love the Beatles.
Eddie Murphy
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I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'
Banks -
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions. Quoted in PBS episode of American Masters
Man Ray -
I never really had them. I always get the eccentric kids who dress funny and sit and write poetry for three months in their bedrooms......I was going to see tons of shows when I was a teenager, so if I was a girl, would that have made me a groupie? If I wanted to shake Thurston Moore's hand or something?
Beck -
The best thing women in tech can do is to invest in other women.
Christine Tsai -
After Notre Dame, what is there?
Ara Parseghian -
We can, and must, shift to an economy in which 100% of our electricity is generated renewably.
Jill Stein
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Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by anyone claiming a social conscience and is lambasted by legislators as if its bad behavior places it somewhere between investment bankers and the Taliban.
Charles Platt -
If I'm in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.
Jason Mraz -
I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.
Fred Durst Limp Bizkit -
I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
Rachel Kushner -
When we get on stage, naturally, you just get out there and work it as hard as you humanly possibly can do it.
David Bryan Bon Jovi -
The most valuable asset a nation has is the creativity of its children.
Alan Plater