Alexandre Aja Quotes
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke -
No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
Hanya Yanagihara -
As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
Naveen Jain -
Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
Sam Kinison -
The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
Kate Klise -
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
Larry David -
Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
Brown Campbell -
I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
Kamisese Mara -
'Heroine' is about a declining and imbalanced superstar - a very brave and bold role. I wanted to test whether I could carry a role like this. I have given 200 per cent to this role. She's a very complex character, very aggressive, manipulative and bold, yet she's very fragile.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
Garrett Hardin -
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
Gavin DeGraw -
I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.
Cameron Crowe -
I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
Daniel Breaker -
Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama.
Adam McKay -
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Baruch Spinoza
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It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.
Count Basie -
Now is a good time, 10 years ago would have been a good time, and 10 years from now it will still be a good time to see a dynamic, entertaining movie that's wall-to-wall Miles Davis where the music will hopefully spark some desire to know more about the man.
Don Cheadle -
My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith -
I hope that most of us believe that we actually would all benefit from living in a more equitable society. If that's not happening, we're squandering human potential.
John Landgraf -
I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.
William Shakespeare -
A movie like 'The Last House On The Left' would be very hard to do in Europe.
Alexandre Aja