Rita Dove Quotes
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.Rita Dove
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
Kate Beckinsale -
As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
Eddie Redmayne -
I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
Gail Simmons -
I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
Olivia De Havilland -
It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
Sally Ride -
Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
B. Wayne Hughes
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
Natasha Little -
There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
Kate Moss -
I started out doing musicals.
Zooey Deschanel -
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The way I look at it you can always get better.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
A. Whitney Brown
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.
Vin Diesel -
And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.
Imran Khan -
In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back.
Carlos Alvarez -
Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.
Manny Farber -
I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
W. C. Fields
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Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it.
Elizabeth Blackburn -
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
Orson Welles -
I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.
T. R. Knight -
Hanson is not the pop band that a lot of people think we are. I think we're a lot more rooted in a lot of music history... we're songwriters, we're singers, we're players first. We're not entertainers, we're not celebrities, and frankly, we don't really want to be.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Denis Diderot -
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.
Rita Dove