Betty MacDonald Quotes
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I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
A. N. Wilson -
I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
Edmund Hillary -
According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.
Questlove -
Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
Dalia Mogahed -
I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
Daniel Breaker
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Simply, there are many things I would like to do.
Namie Amuro -
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I didn't do the typical things that young kids do.
Balthazar Getty -
'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
Lance Reddick -
My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
Bear Grylls -
Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
Samuel L. Jackson
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I lived somewhat of a nomadic life, even when I lived in Ohio. We spent time in rural areas, in suburban areas, never really city areas. We rode four-wheelers. We had pigs and ferrets. And creeks. We had a creek in my backyard. It was like 'Huckleberry Finn.'
Haley Bennett -
Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
Harrison Salisbury -
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Victor Hugo -
After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
Karen Armstrong -
I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
Oliver Reed
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'Blue Velvet' changed my life forever. It was like I'd always read Chaucer and suddenly discovered Charles Bukowski. It made me understand that there is poetry of sublime ecstasy and dark terror, and it spoke to a side of me that hadn't been reached before.
Joe Wright -
I can't spend any time cultivating celebrity.
Joanna Coles -
I was utterly miserable, and yet fearless as I had never been. I was carefree. It was like dying. It would be foolish to worry about anything while one died.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.
Jimmy Rushing -
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'
Betty MacDonald