Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.Ambrose Bierce
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I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
Frances O'Grady -
The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
Sally Ride -
I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
Randy Pausch -
I try to photobomb as much as possible.
Bebe Rexha -
I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
Damien Hirst -
Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
Ted Allen
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Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.
Viggo Mortensen -
I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
Ted Lange -
I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.
Iris Apfel -
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
D. H. Lawrence -
I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.
Rachel Cusk -
I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.
Tayari Jones
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The enigma I will not explain – its 'dark saying' must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the apparent connection between the variations and the theme is often of the slightest texture.
Edward Elgar -
Ἄτης ἄρουρα θάνατον ἐκκαρπίζεται.
Aeschylus -
Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality – it resists and makes demands..
Barbara Hepworth -
I like Mr. Gorbachev. We can do business together.
Margaret Thatcher -
I think, Queen Victoria's diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library.
Claire Foy -
I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car.
Andrew Davies
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I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist
Choi Soo-young -
Heap on more wood!-the wind is chill;But let it whistle as it will,We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.
Walter Scott -
We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.
Hal Hartley -
The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.
Oliver Tambo -
Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans on voice-over at the beginning, then abandons it for a while, then the character just talks right into the camera at the end. That structure is so unusual that you don't have any sense of what's going to happen next.
Taylor Sheridan -
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce