Ali Smith Quotes
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
Tamsin Greig -
In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
Edmund White -
That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
J. C. Chandor -
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. Forster -
I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
Edmund White -
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
Ted Rall
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The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.
Larry Craig -
I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.
Taylor Swift -
When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.
Hannah Simone -
If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.
Maira Kalman -
My connections to Broward are long, and they are deep, and I'm proud of them.
Ted Deutch -
Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
Hanoi Hannah
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My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.
Gabourey Sidibe -
You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.
Navid Negahban -
As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
Adam Gopnik -
Be happy. Don't make a Vine about, like, something not that happy.
Nash Grier -
I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.
Raf Simons
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I'm too much of a big kid.
Iain Glen -
I've been developing mobile for years before anybody else really thought it was that important.
Max Levchin -
It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable.
Cillian Murphy -
I've always been a big fan of Nashville, and I have friends that live there.
Eric Close -
I was born in Massachusetts. I live in Stillwater. I went to school in Florida.
Peter Uihlein -
I'm happy to have nothing, so long as I'm sure I've been working.
Ali Smith