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Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

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• Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Book
  • Light
  • City

• In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Time
  • Society
  • Changes

• Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Chance
  • Olympics

• Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Reading
  • Imagination
  • Creative

• I'm afraid to fail again.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Afraid
  • Fail
  • Again

• If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Important
  • Real
  • Truth

• I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Pain

• I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Running
  • Training
  • Year

• I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Building

• Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Technology
  • Engineering

• To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • Music
  • Country

• If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Anger

• Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • America
  • Doing
  • Wonderful

• In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Work
  • First
  • Drug

• Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Thought
  • Only
  • Medals

• With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Father

• As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Red

• The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000.

  

  Jim Cantalupo
  • Good
  • Real

• Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Children
  • Guy
  • Death

• Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• Nicholas Sarkozy made the point that both America and France have political systems that they want to share with the world. There's an emphasis on being a unique person. Screw you if you don't like it. But the problem is, they're all the same.

  

  Rosecrans Baldwin
  • America
  • Emphasis
  • Problem

• It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • True
  • Father

• Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

  

  Pam Gems
  • Heart
  • Drama
  • Said