Anne Akiko Meyers Quotes
I've always had my ear peeled for interesting music. As a student, I regularly spent time hunting for interesting repertoire, looking through music bins, buying stacks and stacks of CDs, and discovering rarely played pieces by composers.Anne Akiko Meyers
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith -
We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
A. Philip Randolph -
You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
Eddie Marsan -
You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
Larry Hagman -
Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
Ian Hacking -
Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
Eddie Trunk
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
Pat Robertson -
It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
Ram Charan -
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.
Vera Wang -
I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I've always had very catholic tastes.
Ian Mckellen
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What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.
Gary Oldman -
Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.
Barry Sheene -
I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.
Quentin Blake -
Wearing modest clothing is a belief, and I'm not going to say that every Muslim woman is in my shoes, but the majority of us do have a choice.
Halima Aden -
It's a fine line. If you withhold too much, you come across as wooden - as I've often been described in some movies. Fair enough. I believe that the best performances are the ones that an audience has to search for.
Sam Worthington -
I've seen a lot of great players that couldn't get to the top because of horses, and I've seen a lot of normal players that got higher and higher because of horses.
Facundo Pieres
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Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
Oscar Wilde -
There's always some difference between your Latino and African-American communities. But we definitely have more similarities than differences.
Aja Brown -
I hate light... I feel like at night, it's safer. If anything happens, there's a way to hide at night. Another thing I hate about light is it reminds me about being in a refugee camp and being outside.
Clemantine Wamariya -
Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!
Bette Midler -
He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.
Abu Bakr -
I've always had my ear peeled for interesting music. As a student, I regularly spent time hunting for interesting repertoire, looking through music bins, buying stacks and stacks of CDs, and discovering rarely played pieces by composers.
Anne Akiko Meyers