Ali Smith Quotes
I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.Ali Smith
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
Carla Bley -
I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
Victoria Justice -
Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
Adam Hamilton -
When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner -
You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
Adam McKay -
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Walter Benjamin
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
Natalie Wood -
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
Ian McShane -
It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing.
Patrick Kane -
Small aim is a crime.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
Mandy Moore -
When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
Ted Sarandos
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
Iain Banks -
I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
L.A. Reid -
The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
Valerie Jarrett -
Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.
Brown Campbell -
The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
Yasser Arafat -
Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
Barbara Rosenblat
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There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, 'What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused.'
Edmund Burke -
You should have only one intense desire within yourself: Have I become the spirit? Have I achieved my ultimate? Have I risen above the worldly desires?
Nirmala Srivastava -
The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
Harmon Killebrew -
I must tell you that I was always afraid of the fury with which I loved you. It overwhelmed me. I thought it beyond comprehension, therefore my silence.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.
Ali Smith