Madison Smartt Bell Quotes
One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.Madison Smartt Bell
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Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.
T. J. Miller -
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson -
It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
Lal Bahadur Shastri -
I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
Pat Summitt -
I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
Kara DioGuardi
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
Fat Joe -
You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
Gary Larson -
In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
Ram Dass -
It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
Tahar Rahim -
We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
Katha Pollitt -
My most joy that I have is dancing.
Camila Alves
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
G. Stanley Hall -
There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
Patrick Duffy -
Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
Randy Wayne White -
I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.
Naveen Jain -
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
Alan Dean Foster -
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
A. R. Ammons -
Chris Evans has embodied Captain America as well as any actor has ever embodied an iconic pop-culture figure like that. I go back to Chris Reeve as Superman as the gold standard, and I think Evans is right there.
Kevin Feige -
And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
Fawn Hall -
I wasn't a kid trying to become famous. I wasn't a part of any Disney Channel wheelhouse. I was basically a black kid whose parents put him into the business so he could go to college.
Jaleel White -
One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
Madison Smartt Bell