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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Whenever I watch a show and twentysomethings have a lot of 'Star Wars' references, I know it's written by a 40-year-old dude.
Anders Holm -
Overall, it was a pretty dull year. A few were okay - the bear that wanted the beer, the Fabio spot.
Jim Kerr Simple Minds -
The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste.
Manny Farber -
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
Victor Hugo -
The best way to avoid bureaucracy is to have small teams who are empowered to make decisions and get their work done.
Aneel Bhusri -
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