Amanda Donohoe Quotes
I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.Amanda Donohoe
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
Damon Galgut -
I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
Dane Cook -
I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
Kate Micucci -
I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
Naomi Campbell -
We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
Tammy Duckworth -
I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.
Hans Rosling
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Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.
Zachary Levi -
The crowd can be a little different in some places. For example, in Europe, people tend to be very respectful. They try not to make too much noise at inappropriate times. In other countries, people can be very still. Sometimes I'm not sure if a crowd is into it until the end, when they usually want me to do something crazy for the encore.
Mac DeMarco -
I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.
Maira Kalman -
Tempus edax rerum.
Ovid -
I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.
Emily Weiss -
Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.
Billy Crudup
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It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Joan Miro -
They will accuse me of stealing from my father. They already stand in baited judgement, waiting for my first move, waiting to dump their loads of garbage on me.
Jeff Buckley -
Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.
Alex Turner -
Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.
Neil LaBute -
Politics is a rough and tumble business. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process.
Donna Brazile
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Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry
Ted Nelson -
In talking and communicating, it's important that we really share information with one another - because I think that leads to better understanding - and also just kind of educate one another in a way that's really honest.
Nia Long -
I have developed a Samoan mentality. You have to be a gentleman everywhere but on the field.
Troy Polamalu -
If you want to take what I've learned and use it to your advantage, just listen and you won't have to go through it.
T.I. -
In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself.
Michael Ritchie -
I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.
Amanda Donohoe