George Brecht Quotes
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
Wendelin Van Draanen -
If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
Adam Grant -
I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
Ziggy Marley -
As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
Wavy Gravy -
I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
Frances McDormand
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson -
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
Harold Prince -
I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
Bas Rutten -
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino -
I am very shy with people I don't know.
Ingmar Bergman -
There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.
Tate Taylor
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I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Come! let the burial rite be read - the funeral song be sung! - An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young - A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Bubbles! Oh come on Sharon! I'm fucking Ozzy Osbourne, the Prince of fucking Darkness. Evil! Evil! What's fucking evil about a buttload of fucking bubbles!?
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
'Is there anyone in Chasm City she hasn’t deceived?''Possibly, somewhere, but only as an extreme theoretical possibility.'
Alastair Reynolds -
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'
Athenaeus -
Kids are really inspired to not just apply senses to robots and machines, but to try them on themselves.
Neil Harbisson
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When I decide to score, I score. I know I am strong, but I believe it is not enough yet. I can kick fine, dribble very well, but I still have to improve.
Mario Balotelli -
Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.
Thich Nhat Hanh -
Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?
Wally Herger -
I was a regular kid with a normal family life.
Christy Turlington -
The whole universe interest me.
George Brecht