Laurence Olivier Quotes
If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights. Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.Laurence Olivier
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
Carlo Ponti -
After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
Fat Joe -
Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
Cara Delevingne -
I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
Tanit Phoenix -
I am a citizen of the world.
Abbas Kiarostami -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
Barton Gellman -
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Mao Zedong -
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
Kate Mosse -
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
E. B. White
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
D. A. Pennebaker -
My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
Olly Murs -
Excellence always sells.
Earl Nightingale -
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
B. C. Forbes -
For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
Vanessa Lachey -
I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
Randy Johnson
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Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.
John Prendergast -
There is no deodorant like success.
Elizabeth Taylor -
How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?
Walker Percy -
...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.
William Morris -
I'm serious about this. The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country. That's a hell of a trifecta.
Joe Scarborough -
If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights. Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.
Laurence Olivier