William Monahan Quotes
Casting is all about availability, as much as anything else.
William Monahan
Quotes to Explore
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
Harrison Birtwistle
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Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet!
Said Nursi
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I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.
Ice Cube
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Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Good material is good material.
J. K. Simmons
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As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.
Campbell Scott
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In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.
Zac Goldsmith
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams
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Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.
Rachel Kushner
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My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind – I've always loved it.
Xavier Rudd
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I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
Ralph Lauren
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I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.
Natasha Trethewey
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I like to look up the formal definitions of words that I'm already familiar with and sometimes you find out a word means something you didn't already think of, you know? I looked up the definition of "upset" and it was something like, "To be filled with uneasiness and anxiety," and I feel like that all the time, so I was like, "That's appropriate." But also it's a name that when you hear it, you wouldn't assume that it's any certain type of band. It kind of has room to grow into and make it redefine the word.
Ali Koehler
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
Jackie Robinson
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Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) is probably one of the most personal songs from the new [September, 2007] CD, "90 Millas" . . . as it really speaks about the celebration, nostalgia and emotion that will happen the day Cuba is free. If we're to move forward in Cuba, we really have to have a lot of forgiveness for each other and look towards the future.
Gloria Estefan
Miami Sound Machine
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Casting is all about availability, as much as anything else.
William Monahan
