Emily Barton Quotes
I was working on the book, but in a very subterranean kind of a fashion. And I think that giving yourself permission to respect that, without being lazy and not doing work when you could be doing work and just don't feel like it - that's a different balance that can be complicated to strike.Emily Barton
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
Gary Cole -
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
Oscar Niemeyer -
I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.
Zach Galifianakis -
I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
Abby Wambach -
He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
Madeleine Stowe -
I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
Barbara Broccoli
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When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
Dan Gilbert -
You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
Ralph Fiennes -
Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
Vic Fuentes -
Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
Oliver Sim The xx -
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
J. Michael Straczynski -
From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.
Gary Ackerman
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The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.
Victor LaValle -
I've always defended Shania. She not only opened doors; she knocked several down.
Faith Hill -
I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig.
Olivia Williams -
Andre Agassi, in his account of becoming an embittered prodigy, seems never to have liked tennis much, except as a vehicle for achievement. The kids who do like life inside the lines can find the flow within that green-and-white geometry.
Adam Gopnik -
Take an Indian home to lunch.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
'It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,' she explained.
Agatha Christie
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I spent a lot of my time working in the American module, and he would stay in the Russian segment working on his things, and we'd meet up at meal times. So it actually worked out very well.
Leroy Chiao -
In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.
Alexander Walker -
I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that.
Amy Chua -
It was exciting putting hundreds of millions of dollars to work buying and building wind farms in Texas.
Lynn Good -
I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
Manfred von Richthofen -
I was working on the book, but in a very subterranean kind of a fashion. And I think that giving yourself permission to respect that, without being lazy and not doing work when you could be doing work and just don't feel like it - that's a different balance that can be complicated to strike.
Emily Barton