P. T. Barnum Quotes
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My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
Sally Hawkins -
For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
Quentin Crisp -
Marriage has made me safer.
Kate Winslet -
I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
Ted Nugent -
We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
Dana Perino -
I don't want to over-promise and under-deliver.
Larry Hogan
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
Beck Bennett -
Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
Edie Falco -
I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
Babyface -
A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
Laura Anne Gilman -
If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
Mahershala Ali -
In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
J. Michael Bishop
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
Victoria Aveyard -
I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
Candice Bergen -
I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.
L. E. Modesitt -
I love horror movies. It's so fun being absolutely terrified. It's damn hard to shoot, though. I didn't realize how difficult it was to make a horror movie as an actor. Physically and mentally, phew.
Maika Monroe -
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
Walter Pater
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My career has been a bit strange. I don't think it took the normal route.
Fred Ward -
There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz.) And as I lay there, it occurred to me that God is up there somewhere.
Donald Miller -
Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged.
Peter Gallagher Tufts Beelzebubs -
You never mean a single word you say.
Oscar Wilde -
I always give importance to scripts first, and remuneration is something that comes later.
Hansika Motwani -
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
P. T. Barnum