P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
Harmony Korine -
There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.
Paddy Considine -
I'm happy with my commercial heroine tag.
Hansika Motwani -
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken -
The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.
Karen Horney -
I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.
Lasse Hallstrom
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Be good at something. It makes you valuable.
Randy Pausch -
Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything.
Rajneesh -
A good song is a good song, and if I'm lucky enough to write it, well....! I get more kick out of writing than I do singing. I reckon I've written a thousand songs and had over 300 published.
Hank Williams -
The taxidermist is a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.
Yann Martel -
Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.
A. P. Herbert -
Be strong to love, O Heart!Love knows not wrong;Didst thou love - creatures even,Life were not long;Didst thou love God in heaven,Thou wouldst be strong!
Adelaide Anne Procter
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Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.
Joe Jamail -
You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.'
Clare Balding -
I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interestingly, the nuns always let me write plays or do drawings, endless special projects.
Eileen Myles -
It was only when I began modeling at 18 that I really began enjoying fashion and reading any fashion magazine I could get my hands on, and developing a profound respect for designers, fashion and how to wear it.
Poppy Delevingne -
I grew up in a neighborhood that had a lot of things to offer, good and bad.
Anthony Santos Aventura -
I'm really excited to be chosen as a VEVO LIFT artist. It's a great opportunity to reach millions more music fans with my sound and let them see the real Rita.
Rita Ora
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I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, "Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?"
Ang Lee -
If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but have no sense of shame. If they are governed by virtue and rules of propriety are used to maintain order, they will have a sense of shame and will become good as well.
Confucius -
I try to find more interesting material with each project I do.
Douglas Booth -
I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
Laura Benanti -
In forward bends, one uses the outer mind while in backbends the outer mind is silenced and the inner mind is made to work.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
‘Stinko, is he?’'Not perhaps stinko, but certainly effervescent.’
P. G. Wodehouse