Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
Earl Blumenauer -
I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
Rakul Preet Singh -
Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
Taylor Hicks -
There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
Aaron Swartz -
I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
Yuji Horii -
The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
Gail Simmons
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
Danica McKellar -
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
Ralph Fiennes -
There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
Mandy Moore -
I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
Vincent Bugliosi -
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
Barbara Kingsolver -
An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
Zach Galligan
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
Madeleine Albright -
The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
Talcott Parsons -
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
Irwin Shaw -
Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
Bart Stupak -
You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
Ian Somerhalder -
Human nature is above all things lazy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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I love the sea.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.
Gary Lineker -
I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.
Octavia Spencer -
You can't get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If you're an engineer, you can take courses on understanding how to move a river in Africa to bring hydroelectric power to a community.
Jonathan Tisch -
What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
Jack Davenport -
You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
Wendelin Van Draanen