Mara Wilson Quotes
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
Action Bronson -
I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
Caleb Cushing -
I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
Kate Winslet -
I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
G. Willow Wilson -
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Karl Marx -
That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
Ian Hart
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
Karin Slaughter -
I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
Natascha McElhone -
I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
Aaron Neville -
I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
Iggy Azalea -
I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.
Becki Newton -
When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
Umberto Eco
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Conscience is God present in man.
Victor Hugo -
I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
Ralph Fiennes -
All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
Harold Pinter -
I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
Eartha Kitt -
Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
Octavia E. Butler -
To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
Ian MacKaye
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The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families.
J. C. Watts -
My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasingly gray morality. Her character arc in 'Glass Sword' is a lot deeper and more emotional than before, so I'm glad I got to write this sequel and that people want to read it.
Victoria Aveyard -
I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
Ira Glass -
More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.
Patricia Ireland -
He also noted, in explaining his methodology for the workshop, that when he had reflected and meditated on the pre-Hellenic myths until he 'became filled with a myth', the ways in which he thought about natural phenomena and even the entire universe were qualitatively different from the perceptions that woud have arisen if he had been immersed in, say, the patriarchal, industrialized, competitive, Victorian world that was Darwin's frame of reference. Swimme concluded that the myth's have a very deep biological basis and that by allowing ourselves to be filled with a myth, the universe itself is altered because our relationship to the universe is altered in a very real sense.
Charlene Spretnak -
Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
Mara Wilson