Ayad Allawi Quotes
Politically we are very different now. But those were nice days then.
Ayad Allawi
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I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
Oscar Hijuelos
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I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.
Damian Lewis
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It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
Rafael Nadal
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I love Le'Veon Bell.
LaDainian Tomlinson
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I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.
Ted Cruz
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In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.
Eden Robinson
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I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.
Sachin Tendulkar
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There's been a progression in my sound.
Carly Rae Jepsen
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I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
Taylor Swift
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I work out every morning for an hour while in front of the news channel or business channels, then I'll ride for four, five hours a day. So I'm on the move all the time, and I think that's the key. A body in motion tends to stay in motion. That's the law of physics.
Ian Millar
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I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.
Rachel Platten
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You have to figure out what's important and keep the main points, though I will swing a little outside the box. It affords me the freedom to find out who the character is, and it's been a positive technique for me. I'm not saying everyone should change words, but if you can do it with confidence, you may nail it.
Dawn Olivieri
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There's different ways of getting into character. There's what's called 'the outside,' in which is finding the physicality of the character first. To give an example, in 'Gettin' Square' - Johnny Spitieri - that's how I found that character. I knew those people that I'd seen up at Kings Cross. I knew how they sounded.
David Wenham
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If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?
Nicholas Sparks
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I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times I'm completely goofy and girlie. So, I like my songs to cover all my moods.
Jewel Kilcher
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It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting.
James Spader
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One of my earliest memories, movie-related or otherwise, is of seeing a man dunking a man's head in a toilet on television, and my mom telling me that this is what would happen to me if I ever joined the Army. It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I would discover that this was a scene from 'The Great Santini,' starring Robert Duvall.
David Lowery
Camper Van Beethoven
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Politically we are very different now. But those were nice days then.
Ayad Allawi
