Alexandra Bracken Quotes
'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.Alexandra Bracken
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
Malorie Blackman -
When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
Edmund Hillary -
I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
Aaron Paul -
It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
Carla Gugino -
We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
Ha-Joon Chang -
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Karl Marx
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
Iris Murdoch -
No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
P. T. Barnum -
I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
T. J. Thyne -
Craft is part of the creative process.
Gavin Bryars -
When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'
D. A. Pennebaker -
None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.
Quentin Tarantino
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I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professionally. But when I caught the acting bug, I knew I needed to go with no turning back.
Jacob Artist -
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Samuel Johnson -
Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.
Patricia Heaton -
Veterans are my life's work. From the day my buddies saved my life in Iraq, I've woken up every single day dedicated to taking care of veterans and doing my best for veterans.
Tammy Duckworth -
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson -
Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
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People find the humor in life all the time. And you have to in order to make it through real life. Like, some things are tragic, but you have to laugh.
Jason Mitchell -
Hope will break your heart all over again.
Tahereh Mafi -
I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
Gautam Gambhir -
Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.
Jennifer Lynch -
I'm just hoping that as I get older, and as more and more movies get made by female directors, what we start to see is how, in the same way good male directors get a shot at creating interesting male and female characters, women do as well.
Karyn Kusama -
'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.
Alexandra Bracken