Leigh Brackett Quotes
There was a smell in the air now. The hot, close, frightening small of mob; mob excited, hungry, dreaming blood and death. The primitive in Stark knew that sweaty acridity all too well.
Leigh Brackett
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
Tawakkol Karman
The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
Lamar Alexander
If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
Eckhart Tolle
It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
Warren Christopher
Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
J. R. R. Tolkien
A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
Walter de La Mare
It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
W. Averell Harriman
Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
Fareed Zakaria
Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
Karen Traviss
I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
Paloma Elsesser
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
Ralph Fiennes
America is a meritocracy.
P. J. O'Rourke
I met David Bowie when I was 14, and he became a hero to me - because he was an artist, and because he was a genius who had the time to be kind. I'd never met such an extraordinary artist before, and I haven't since - the world will be a greyer place without him.
Jennifer Connelly
I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
Gabriella Wilde
Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.
David Horsey
The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.
James Franco
Chris Guest has his own form. It's a way of working that is really intense, and you can commit a lot, and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven't seen before. You're asked to care a great deal for these people who you're playing and create heart and empathy.
Parker Posey
There was a smell in the air now. The hot, close, frightening small of mob; mob excited, hungry, dreaming blood and death. The primitive in Stark knew that sweaty acridity all too well.
Leigh Brackett
