Victor Hugo Quotes
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
Patricia Reilly Giff -
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
Ilya Ehrenburg -
Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
E. L. Doctorow -
I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
Garth Davis -
A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
Edith Stein -
I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
M.I.A.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
Vanessa Kerry -
Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.
Eddie Murphy -
I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.
M. Ward -
'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.
Salma Hayek -
During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
Eavan Boland -
I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
Orlando Bloom
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I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
Jack Henry Abbott -
In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.
Barton Gellman -
I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.
Imelda May -
I've written a lot of books in my time, and to write a book about Joe McCarthy and have some of the major media paying attention, I'm not used to that.
M. Stanton Evans -
I'm a bit of a control freak.
E. L. James
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Nothing of value is free. It is very easy, Mr. Chairman, to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else's property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where commonsense is lured and then quietly strangled.
Jack Valenti -
My work participates in that really quick and easy and inexpensive material that's part of our culture. In that way, my work engages the means of production that we live with, even while it's classical and embodies some things from a very long time ago.
Jessica Stockholder -
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
John Ruskin -
Peter Kaplan was a partner, a mentor, and a friend.
Jared Kushner -
I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
Rahm Emanuel -
Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
Victor Hugo