Barry S. Strauss Quotes
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
Ed Koch -
I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
Harlan Coben -
We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
Carlton Cuse -
Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
Cameron Mackintosh -
Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
Ferdinand Lassalle
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
Jack Kevorkian -
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Viktor E. Frankl -
My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
Rae Dawn Chong -
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
Baltasar Gracian -
Not only is natural burial by far the most ecologically sound way to perish, it doubles down on the fear of fragmentation and loss of control. Making the choice to be naturally buried says, 'Not only am I aware that I'm a helpless, fragmented mass of organic matter, I celebrate it. Vive la decay!'
Caitlin Doughty -
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
Harold Pinter
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I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.
Zach Gilford -
You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see composition in 2-D but in 3-D your composition is much more complex. Everything has to be artificially enhanced. But you do gain something else with 3-D: you have a sense of space and heightened reality.
Caleb Deschanel -
Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.
Octavia E. Butler -
People should be very free with sex, but they should draw the line at goats.
Elton John -
Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys playing reggae'. They know they can't, we know they can't, so they sing like they can't and play like they can't. They gently make fun of the idiom or sing in a false accent.
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
Antonio Porchia
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I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done.
Lionel Shriver -
The editing work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time youd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.
Edward Blishen -
I really wanted to be a writer.
Nancy Meyers -
With a face like mine, I do better in print.
Jerry Springer -
The thing I love about President Trump is he's really focused on helping business succeed.
Dennis Muilenburg -
Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'.
Barry S. Strauss