Gail Godwin Quotes
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
Naomie Harris -
My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
Zig Ziglar -
Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
Maeve Binchy -
Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
Frances Perkins -
The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
Victoria Pratt
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
Pablo Sandoval -
It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
Harrison Ford -
As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
Rachel Cusk -
I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
Edgar Wright -
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde -
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
E. M. Forster
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
Bat for Lashes -
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint Augustine -
I am from Karnal, India.
Kalpana Chawla -
I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
Kate Winslet -
I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
Nas -
This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
Gary Zukav
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Our outer world will always be a reflection of our inner world. Our level of success is always going to parallel our level of personal development. Until we dedicate time each day to developing ourselves into the person we need to be to create the life we want, success is always going to be a struggle to attain.
Hal Elrod -
Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike.
Willard Libby -
Some of my favorite places I have been in my life exist only in dreams.
Nisi Shawl -
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.
Clement Clarke Moore -
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
Gail Godwin