Alan Lightman Quotes
With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.Alan Lightman
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I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.
Adam Driver -
I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
Paget Brewster -
Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
Kate Smith -
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Rachel Field -
Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.
Gary Miller Bad Brains
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
Ida Lupino -
Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
Osric Chau -
Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
Im Dong-Hyun -
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
Samuel Butler -
Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
Orison Swett Marden -
I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
Irene Rosenfeld
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
Barry McGee -
Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
Nas -
I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
F. Sionil Jose -
In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
Ed Sheeran -
You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
Warren Ellis -
I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
Rani Mukerji
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It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.
Orlando Bloom -
Perhaps the secret to making a billion dollars in real estate is that there is no secret.
David Lichtenstein -
When I died last, and dear, I die As often as from thee I go.
John Donne -
A man in debt is so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It's interesting - I think superheroes get much more unfair derision. There are so many good superhero books being done. Science fiction is almost more reputable, I guess, at least a step up from poor superheroes.
Brian K. Vaughan -
With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
Alan Lightman