Laurie Graham Quotes
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.
Laurie Graham
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
Oscar Levant
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
Ram Dass
There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
Ira Sachs
As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
Felicity Jones
Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
Yotam Ottolenghi
No decent career was ever founded on a public.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
Vince McMahon
Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
Barry White
For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
Pankaj Mishra
It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.
Adam Cohen
Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
Madhuri Dixit
Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
Jacob Epstein
One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
C. Wright Mills
I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature.
Domhnall Gleeson
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant
Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.
Joanne Rowling
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.
Laurie Graham
