Alan Sillitoe Quotes
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
E. F. Benson -
People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
Kate Morton -
The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
Caitlin Moran -
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
Patrick Murray -
I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
Salma Hayek -
I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
Gail Carson Levine
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I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia -
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
F. Sionil Jose -
I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.
Maeve Binchy -
I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
Garrett Graff -
I do believe food plays an important role in preparation for the Olympics or any competition.
Ilya Ilyin -
When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.
F. W. de Klerk
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The sphinx will always have to be looked after.
Zahi Hawass -
I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.
Kat Graham -
I really love 'America's Next Top Model.' I'm always tweeting about it, and people are like, 'You need to get a life!' Any time I do a photo shoot, I always think, 'What would Tyra say?'
Carly Chaikin -
Nothing important is completely explicable.
Madeleine L'Engle -
There is nothing important except people. A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his interrelationships; and morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one’s function in the sociopolitical whole.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.
Karl Marx
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He lacked the wisdom, and the only way for him to get it was to buy it with his youth; and when wisdom was his, youth would have been spent buying it.
Jack London -
I think if you have a funny thought, and you want to get off a funny point, try to do it as realistically as you can. If you try to act it funny and accent the funny points, or do it in a funny style, you kind of lose it.
Fred Willard -
I do the same thing for myself (as an actor) that I do for others.
Ben Affleck -
You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.
Gary Webb -
You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.
Alan Sillitoe