Raymond Williams Quotes
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
Jack Prelutsky -
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
Dana Carvey -
I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
Felicity Kendal -
I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
Jack Canfield -
I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
Verite -
You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
L'Wren Scott
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
Kate Beckinsale -
People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
Nalini Nadkarni -
I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
Gayle Forman -
An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
Ted Cruz -
Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
Queen Latifah -
A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
Nancy Gibbs
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I think that's how most families are, really. Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world.
Garrett Dillahunt -
'Places to Go' is something that I would never normally write because I would usually be worried with what people would think about me.
Yuna -
With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction.
James Rollins -
It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.
Elizabeth Berg -
If you express yourself too much. you're overacting; if you underplay it too much, it can come across as wooden.
Ben Hardy
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When you have 12 hours of storytelling, the cool thing about it is that you get to really leave people with question marks, but hopefully wanting to come back.
Brian J. Smith -
I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
Gaspard Ulliel -
Successful people decide how they are going to live; they are not victims of circumstance. In good times or bad times, they know where they are going and they know that they are going to get there.
Bob Proctor -
We pride ourselves on being a touring band. We work very hard to give a great and unique performance.
John Gourley Portugal. The Man -
Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.
Raymond Williams