Ayi Kwei Armah Quotes
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
J. B. Smoove -
I'm not much of a jokester.
Adam Baldwin -
I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
Irene Rosenfeld -
A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
Barnabe Barnes -
Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
Madeline Kahn -
George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.
Karen DeCrow
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There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
Gavin Bryars -
As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.
Federica Mogherini -
There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
Dana Goodyear -
No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
Edmund Waller -
I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. ... Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!
Fernando Pessoa
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There are worse things in life than being called a lady.
Irene Dunne -
Book publishing was never a heaven 'run by editors', and it is by no means today a hell 'run by accountants.' If our 'sole interest' was 'instant profit,' not only would we never do any number of the things we actually do every day, we probably wouldn’t be in book publishing at all.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden -
Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.
Zinedine Zidane -
Addictive drugs misuse the brain’s existing pre-programming, activating reward mechanisms and extreme feelings of pleasure. When stimulated, the brain’s pleasure centres emit signals to repeat the behaviour. In this sense, the brain is pre-programmed to feel good.
Nayef Al-Rodhan -
I never really had the intention of being a rock 'n' roller. It's just that all of my best friends were great musicians and they felt sorry for me so they had me. (Much Music 1991).
Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers -
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
Lorraine Hansberry
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There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.
Charlie Pierce -
My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.
Les Dawson -
When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because there was such a mob of people expecting him, and they actually chased down his carriage at the hotel, the Parker House Hotel.
Matthew Pearl -
The degree of difficulty in creating what we want lies within our belief about the difficulty or possibility of creating it.
Pamala Oslie -
A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul.
Ayi Kwei Armah