Deanna Durbin Quotes

There are two ways to learn anything. An interesting way and a boring way. I like the interesting way.

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• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Men
  • Very
  • Other

• M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Break
  • Roles
  • Pictures

• There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Nothing
  • Wrong
  • Eyebrow

• When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • American
  • Results

• If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Song
  • Take

• We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Eyes
  • Mouth
  • Nose

• I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Love
  • Question
  • Like

• Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Women
  • Me
  • Old

• It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • People
  • Work
  • Change

• I've seen a lot of great players that couldn't get to the top because of horses, and I've seen a lot of normal players that got higher and higher because of horses.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Great
  • Normal
  • Top

• Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

  

  Larry Wall

• We are faced with the dilemma of how or if we demonstrate where we stand on critical issues and corresponding social ills. We are also bombarded with so many instances of inhumanity that it can be difficult to determine what part we play in human progress.

  

  Bernice King
  • Progress

• I started in theatre, and that took me into film and television.

  

  Kerris Dorsey
  • Theatre

• I would say almost 60 percent of working with Kanye - let's say 53 percent of working with Kanye - is speeches.

  

  Chance The Rapper

• My husband calls it winging it - the way I just took what the studios gave me, didn't do my homework and avoided roles that would risk my image.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Risk
  • Husband

• 'I Am Jazz' was more for children to understand what it means to be transgender, but with 'Being Jazz,' I wanted to get the universal message across that we are all just people, and we have to live our lives authentically.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • People
  • Live
  • Children

• There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

  

  Charles Kingsley
  • True
  • Free

• It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?

  

  Vin Diesel
  • People
  • Real
  • Interesting

• Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Life
  • World
  • Interesting

• 'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

  

  Edmund White
  • May
  • Death
  • Quality

• There are two ways to learn anything. An interesting way and a boring way. I like the interesting way.

  

  Deanna Durbin
  • Interesting
  • Boring
  • Ways