Laura Carmichael Quotes

My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

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• I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Life
  • American
  • Parents

• The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Value
  • Books
  • Uncomfortable

• I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.

  

  J. Christopher Burch
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Fun

• Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

  

  Larry King
  • Why
  • Question
  • Questions

• How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Real

• Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • Love
  • Medicine

• A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Man
  • Baby
  • Complete

• Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Career
  • Medicine

• You either make dust or eat dust.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Eat
  • Either

• Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Career
  • You
  • Analyzing

• You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Day

• Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Life
  • Always
  • Air

• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Circle
  • Round
  • Praised

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • King
  • Legal

• A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Dream
  • Movies
  • Made

• We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Time
  • World
  • Why

• My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as I learned more about his background and culture, I became interested in using American voices.

  

  Laurie Graham
  • American
  • Culture
  • English

• I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through.

  

  Joel Parkinson
  • Good
  • Legacy

• I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories.

  

  Maxine Waters
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• When I went to do my big audition with actors for Mr. Blonde, the thing that was very interesting was the first person to actually do the audition with the song, and they kind of actually acted out the whole scene, they weren't so great. It wasn't that they were magnificent, but the song, it was the first -it was all - been in my head.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Great
  • Song
  • Interesting

• My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

  

  Laura Carmichael
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  • She
  • History