William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
Ireland Baldwin -
There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
Mallory Ortberg -
But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room.
Katey Sagal -
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
Barbara Mertz -
The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made.
Warren Spector -
One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
Fedor Emelianenko
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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.
Oprah Winfrey -
Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
Zoltan Kodaly -
Only the film industry can make you an overnight success. Unlike other jobs where you have to work your way up, here you can reach dizzying heights of fame instantly.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu -
You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.
Sam Heughan -
I can cure AIDS, and I will.
Yahya Jammeh
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Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
Barry Hannah -
The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted.
Ada Yonath -
I never went to school for acting; it just comes to me. I never practice. I read the script, I'll memorize it. I don't even practice the acting. I'll just do it the day, and it will just come to me.
Dakota Goyo -
Music is split up now into little pockets.
Chris Martin Coldplay -
The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.
Kevin Spacey -
It was not a good time for Aerospace Engineers (Boeing was laying off thousands of them) and I found programming more fun anyways.
W. Richard Stevens
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I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.
Geoffrey Rush -
I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?
Idina Menzel -
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
Allen Tate -
Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.
William S. Burroughs