August Kleinzahler Quotes
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
Salma Hayek -
It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
Rachel Kushner -
People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
Taron Egerton -
I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
Kate McKinnon -
There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
Ira Glass
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
Canelo Alvarez -
When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.
Calvin Johnson -
After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
Brown Campbell -
My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
Dalai Lama -
I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
Randy Moss -
It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
Sal Albanese
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It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
Edmund Barton -
In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment.
Carl Honore -
The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.
Kate Winslet -
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The two most important people in animation are Winsor McCay and Walt Disney, and I'm not sure which should go first.
Chuck Jones -
Brazil's got everything to be a great country for Brazilians and for immigrants.
Anderson Silva
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Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.
Paul Farmer -
Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.
Kate Moss -
Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
Alfred Jarry -
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
Martha Graham -
Fans write to us via our publisher and more than ever via the Internet, blogs and fan sites, and good writers should be actively seeking out that interaction. Gone are the days when writers are dead or hidden away in dusty attics; nowadays, you've got to get out there.
Chris Riddell -
Outside, the trees do their witchy dance.
August Kleinzahler