Padgett Powell Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Damien Hirst -
Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
Owen Arthur -
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
Taylor Sheridan -
I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
L'Wren Scott -
The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.
Mackenzie Davis
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
F. L. Lucas -
Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.
Padmasree Warrior -
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
Walter Salles -
I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?
Larry King -
I can do whatever I want.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
Randy Houser -
You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
Sam Mendes -
I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
Sam Raimi -
Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
Sally Mann -
No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.
Karan Johar -
Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
Barry Bonds
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Everything I do has a moral to it.
Ernest Borgnine -
We don't want John Wick to retire again; we're glad he's back in the game. We want a sequel or a prequel. There's a lot of fertile ground to cover.
David Leitch -
I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.
Tom Stoppard -
Looking at the trends that we have gone through as a company, where we started the company, it's all about cloud computing, and we're still cloud computing. And then we went through this space on social. When Facebook came out, that was amazing.
Parker Harris -
Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?
Padgett Powell