Torquil Campbell Quotes
I think you have to make concessions in life. One of the most frustrating things about getting older is [you realize] the reason you have a plan is so you can see everything that it isn't. The plan never works. Something happens and you adjust to it and you adapt to it and you accept it and you keep going, but that's not the plan.Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
Earl Wilson -
There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
Maj Sjowall -
Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
A. N. Wilson -
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore -
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
Irwin Shaw -
I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
Sally Mann
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
Orlando Bloom -
It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
Jack Whittaker -
I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.
Rami Malek -
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
Daniel Defoe -
Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
Venus Williams -
I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.
Queen Latifah
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If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better one.
Alcuin -
If I'm two pounds heavier, I'm fat. If I'm skinnier, I'm sick. It's ridiculous. And that's not coming from agents or designers.
Alessandra Ambrosio -
Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minit its hot and the next minit its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.
Anita Loos -
I haven't done anything that can match up to what I learnt about myself as an actress and as a person or the friends that I made.
Yasmin Paige -
Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.
Virginia Woolf -
A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.
Renzo Piano
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I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.
Eugenio Montale -
Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.
Nicole Scherzinger -
I think you have to make concessions in life. One of the most frustrating things about getting older is [you realize] the reason you have a plan is so you can see everything that it isn't. The plan never works. Something happens and you adjust to it and you adapt to it and you accept it and you keep going, but that's not the plan.
Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene