Rachel Kushner Quotes
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
Obiageli Ezekwesili -
I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
P. J. O'Rourke -
You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.
Dan Hill -
My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
Natasha Trethewey -
Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
Zubin Mehta -
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
Zaha Hadid
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In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.
Hans Eysenck -
People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
Salman Khan -
I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
Vincent D'Onofrio -
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Edgar Degas -
The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
Salman Rushdie
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson -
On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
R. Kelly -
I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
Pat Burns -
Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.
Carl Hagelin -
Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.
Oliver Sim The xx -
I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.
Dan Quinn -
I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
Pamela Anderson -
There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
Harold Ramis -
I would like to be a legend, everyone wants to be a legend.
Yohan Blake -
Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
T. B. Joshua -
I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
Rachel Kushner