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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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
Tea Leoni -
It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.
Bill Gates -
I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.
Joe Torre -
Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?
Padgett Powell