M. J. Rose Quotes
If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.M. J. Rose
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
Larry Fitzgerald -
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac -
I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
Sam Heughan -
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
Viggo Mortensen -
A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'
Rachel Hurd-Wood -
Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
Venus Williams
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I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
Eden Hazard -
I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
L. J. Smith -
I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
Adam Jones -
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
Halsey -
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
Taslima Nasrin
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
Patrick J. Kennedy -
You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
Yoko Ono -
Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
Mandy Moore -
Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
Verne Troyer -
I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
Maika Monroe -
I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
Federico Fellini -
Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.
Dee Rees -
I wrote a couple of songs that had gypsy references in them. The only reason it happened was because that's what was coming through and I liked the idea at that period of time. But that doesn't mean that it's a myth or that I'm a gypsy. It's gotten totally out of context.
Van Morrison -
Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
Florida Scott-Maxwell -
They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'
William Broad Generation X -
If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
M. J. Rose