Carlos Fuentes Quotes
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
Frances McDormand -
Here's the deal with Matty Morrison: He is the most unassuming, nicest, most humble guy, who also happens to be extremely talented.
Victoria Clark -
I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
Kate Winslet -
With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
Ice Cube -
It's nice to see different dimensions of a character. A love interest and family life are always, I think, important in creating layers and textures.
Nazanin Boniadi -
Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
Lady Randolph Churchill
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
Edmund White -
I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
Samuel Alito -
I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
Halle Berry -
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
Edith Wharton -
I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That's huge! That's Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.
Fat Joe -
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
Fran Lebowitz
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver -
At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
Patrick Lencioni -
My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
Malcolm McDowell -
Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.
J. G. Ballard -
I never do anything to my hair. I just wash it. It tends to get dry, so I just try to put good, natural oils in it. I do a deep conditioning mask, which is quite good.
Cara Delevingne -
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
Barbara Januszkiewicz
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In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe life began on Mars and came to Earth, and that idea seemed to have a lot of traction and is now accepted as very plausible.
Paul Davies -
It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.
Zoë Heller -
The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
Aaron Ciechanover -
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Quentin Tarantino -
We are a typical working class northern family, big into our football... no one in the family was into acting. But I remember seeing a panto when I was about six and thinking, 'Yeah... I wouldn't mind doing that.'
Faye Marsay -
I'm a writer, not a genre.
Carlos Fuentes