Ann Burton Quotes
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
Queen Latifah -
Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
Kate Reardon -
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Saint Augustine -
I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.
Natalie Cole -
Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
Laraine Day -
The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
Kangana Ranaut
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
Karan Singh Grover -
'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
Barry Jenkins -
Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.
Dan Webster -
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
Jack McDevitt
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Even today, people tell me that the slapstick humour in 'Friends' is the most viewed comedy track on television. Siddique knows the art of mixing slapstick with genuine humour.
Vijay -
Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
Fanny Kemble -
The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.
Karen Elson -
Even such is time, that takes in trustOur youth, our joys, our all we have,And pays us but with age and dust;Who in the dark and silent grave,When we have wandered all our ways,Shuts up the story of our days.But from this earth, this grave, this dust,My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Walter Raleigh -
Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another when you do differ.
Charles Dickens
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I do have a touch of OCD, and I used to obsess about research. But I'm better than I was. Gone are the days when I would drive to a set of traffic lights to find out if you could turn left. I finally realised it didn't matter. A book will not stand or fall on whether or not there's a branch of Starbucks in Brixton.
Mark Billingham -
For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.
Laurence Housman -
The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
I felt like there were so many talented people who should be getting what I have.
Shawn Mendes -
Some people think their fingers are toes or claws, but they're actually finger bones.
Ann Burton