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 -
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 -
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
Iris Murdoch
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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 -
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
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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 -
Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.
Tamer Hassan
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I do believe I was put here to tell stories and be creative in that way. It's given my life so much purpose and meaning, and it's ultimately what I live for.
Anna Akana -
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
James M. Barrie -
''Waterloo was won,'' quoted Rackham, ''on the playing fields of Eton.'' 'What the hell does that mean?' asked Carn Carby. 'You never even went to Eton.' 'It was an analogy,' said Rackham. 'If you hadn't spent your entire childhood playing war games, you'd actually know something. You're all so uneducated.'
Orson Scott Card -
If you're not having fun with your job, it will show.
Alice Dellal -
'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.
Alexandra Bracken