Alexandre Dumas Quotes
Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.Alexandre Dumas
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
Fiona Apple -
As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
Yitzhak Rabin -
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
Patricia Clarkson -
I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
Yogi Berra -
I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
Cai Guo-Qiang -
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
Barry Humphries -
This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
Madeleine Albright -
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
Iain Banks -
Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
Caitlyn Jenner -
We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
Nate Silver
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I was given an incredible gift growing up in the Chelsea, a space where it is completely fine to be yourself - you just had to figure out what that was. You didn't have to figure that out in the face of opposition at every turn.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Being a father is just wonderful.
Sam Trammell -
I don't take money seriously, so I can't keep any.
Felicity Kendal -
Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.
Tadashi Yanai -
When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.
Oscar Hijuelos -
Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
Walt Handelsman
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I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
Orson Scott Card -
There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different decades. The '50s Westerns very much put forth an Eisenhower idea of America, whereas the Westerns of the '70s were very cynical about America.
Quentin Tarantino -
I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
Ed Sheeran -
An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.
Carol Bly -
Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
Alexandre Dumas