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• That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Love
  • Fall

• I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'

  

  Kari Wuhrer
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Woman

• I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Actor

• Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Soul

• Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Child

• The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Want
  • Design
  • Building

• People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • People
  • Up
  • Light

• Penmanship means a lot to me. I don't have cursive penmanship, though. I've created my own penmanship. It's very clear. Everyone can read it. I write things down all day long.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Me
  • Write
  • Read

• I'll always welcome some extra shifts and some extra ice time, and it's my job to be as prepared as possible to play those minutes.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Job
  • Welcome

• We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Very
  • Fortunate
  • Were

• All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Up
  • Ignorance

• The truth seems to be that we live in concepts of the imagination before the reason has established them. If this is true, then reason is simply the methodizer of the imagination.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Live
  • Truth
  • True

• I feel perfectly willing to stay my threescore years and ten, if it be thought I need so much tuition from this planet; but it seems to me that my future upon earth will soon close. It may be terribly trying, but it will not be so very long, now. God will transplant the root, if he wills to rear it into fruit-bearing.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • God
  • Long
  • Trying

• The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the moment he committed the crime.

  

  Alexander Alekhine
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Law

• For 'The Grace of Kings,' I read Han Dynasty historical records in Classical Chinese, which allowed me to get a sense of the complexity of the politics and the 'surprisingly modern' reactions of the historical figures to recurrent problems of state administration.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Chinese

• I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Guy

• I was buddies with Dennis Rodman back in the day; actually, I am still buddies with him, and so I have gone to a lot of games and always enjoyed it.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk

• That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That's the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That's you on the cover. If it sucks, it's your fault.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Up
  • Different
  • True

• I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Art
  • Passion
  • Paint

• Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.

  

  Yasunari Kawabata
  • Sea
  • Mountain
  • Roaring

• Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Want
  • Like
  • Story

• I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.

  

  Ana Ortiz
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Diversity

• The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything...from me

  

  Corinne Bailey Rae
  • Sea
  • Break
  • Crush