Alan Oliveira Quotes
In 2008, Pistorius was the only guy who could run under 22 seconds at 200 m. So I said I would run as fast as that in London. I practised; I trained.Alan Oliveira
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
Edgar Wright -
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Barbra Streisand -
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Gary Player -
U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
Barton Gellman -
In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
Tea Obreht -
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
Malcolm Bradbury
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. Lewis -
If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.
Carlos Ghosn -
I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
Vera Wang -
Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
Laetitia Casta -
Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
Edmund White
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
Faith Hill -
I think that our comfort is in our history.
Walter Cronkite -
My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.
Gale Harold -
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
Manuel Puig
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I can write pretty much anywhere.
David Mitchell -
With everything I do, I strive for a balance of tone, where it's not just one thing.
Marti Noxon -
I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
V. S. Naipaul -
I have a very strong tool in competitional enforcement: To do merger control, to look into cartels, misuse of dominant position - when member states hand out favors, for instance, in terms of tax breaks. But even though that's a strong tool, it cannot solve everything.
Margrethe Vestager -
In 2008, Pistorius was the only guy who could run under 22 seconds at 200 m. So I said I would run as fast as that in London. I practised; I trained.
Alan Oliveira