William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
Octavio Paz -
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Orson Scott Card -
I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
Jack Adams -
Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
Sally Mann -
Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.
Victor Pinchuk -
I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
Washed Out
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
Pablo Sandoval -
I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.
Tamsin Greig -
This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
Kandyse McClure -
I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
Takeshi Kitano -
Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
Fernando Flores -
My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
Oliver Reed -
As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
K. A. Applegate -
I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.
Abbie Cornish -
It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.
Lactantius -
I still like to sit in a room and play games all day, so I'm a kid, really.
Adam Peaty -
There are two kinds of serial killers as far as the victim is concerned: the kind that you don't see before they pounce on you and the kind you see and don't expect to pounce on you.
Pat Brown
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In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.
Maria Semple -
When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
Daniel Espinosa -
In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'
Gael Garcia Bernal -
In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too.
Frank Rich -
Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.
William Banting -
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
William Makepeace Thackeray