Alice Waters Quotes
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
Frances McDormand -
Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
Lake Bell -
What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
Imre Kertesz -
If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody's paying attention. Because then when somebody finally does pay attention, it's certainly a lot more interesting when you have a ton of stuff to show.
Ze Frank -
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
Edmund Waller -
I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
Dan Chaon
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Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.
Walt Mossberg -
Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
Oliver Tambo -
It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
Kate Atkinson -
Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
Faran Tahir -
Cipla has already developed a generic version, oseltamivir, which would be much cheaper than Tamiflu, the only available drug effective in treating avian flu.
Yusuf Hamied -
I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
Yoko Ono
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Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
Orla Brady -
Growing up in Canada, I used to love a walk in the early morning, when the streets are quiet and the sun was shining. Walking in the morning is still very refreshing... and if I can, I will walk to my first meeting or appointment.
Imran Amed -
I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest.
Damien Rice -
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Pablo Picasso -
There is no logic to grief.
N. K. Jemisin -
I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
Olivier Theyskens
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Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.
Michel Gondry -
Most parts I've played since 'Naked,' I can barely remember who they were, let alone repeat any lines.
David Thewlis -
I'm in the entertainment business, and I make commercially entertaining animated features.
Kelly Asbury -
no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.
Rachel Field -
I'm an optimist. I'm hopeful.
Alice Waters