Albert Ellis Quotes
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
Fiona McIntosh -
I'm always up for going back to the stage.
Taye Diggs -
I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.
Bam Margera -
When someone gets passed that mic, and they know deep down inside that they wanna say something or sing something or produce something, but they don't do that, it's like killing your musical life.
D.R.A.M. -
My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
S. E. Hinton -
But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.
Fay Godwin
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I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
Vince Neil Mötley Crüe -
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Zig Ziglar -
As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.
Ian Gomez -
You cannot play naive if you're not.
Ida Lupino -
Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'
Yoko Ono
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I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.
Abbas Kiarostami -
I've always been very determined. I don't get easily discouraged.
Kalpana Chawla -
I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.
Orville Redenbacher -
One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.
Mac Davis -
And all my days are trances,And all my nightly dreamsAre where thy grey eye glances,And where thy footstep gleams - In what ethereal dances,By what eternal streams.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything else. I also like The Critic and Celebrity Death Match and South Park. I love all of that.
Bea Arthur
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I spend just as much time on how people hear my music as I do the actual music, no matter how long it takes. I'm such a visual artist as well that it always goes hand-in-hand.
The Weeknd -
I've been a paratrooper all my life.
Keith Kellogg -
A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity always modifies the effect of the evidence, and sometimes transforms it entirely.
E. M. Forster -
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
Albert Ellis