William Shakespeare Quotes
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The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
Beau Willimon -
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg -
You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
Rafael Palmeiro -
Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
Natasha Trethewey -
I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.
Gareth Bale -
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
Jack Vance
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None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
Wanda Jackson -
Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
Waylon Jennings -
Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
Feist -
Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
Natalie Dormer -
The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
Edmund Waller -
I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
Xun Kuang
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I have a wonderful piano that I really love: a handmade Yamaha grand. Sometimes I'm sitting there, and it sounds so good that I find some little melody or a phrase that leads me into a song, but probably more often than not, I actually grab a notebook.
J. D. Souther -
I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
Waris Ahluwalia -
You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem.
Jack Ma -
Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.
Callie Khouri -
Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
Victor Hugo
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The only solution for dealing with the IRA is to kill 600 people in one night.
Alan Clark Dire Straits -
My dad would load me into the car under a pile of blankets in the middle of the night so I could sleep the whole way and be on the mountain when it opened.
Chloe Kim -
I grew up addicted to 'Star Trek' and 'Mission: Impossible.' Now I switch between 'South Park' and 'C-Span.'
Lawrence Blume -
The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.
Alice McDermott -
I'm habitually positive. I try not to use anger as motivation.
Urijah Christopher Faber -
Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because t'was night?
William Shakespeare