Kingsley Amis Quotes
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I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
Xavier Dolan -
In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.
M.I.A. -
Love is more than one thing.
Ziggy Marley -
I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
Warren Giles -
Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
Samantha Bee
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
Sam Worthington -
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
Naguib Mahfouz -
I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
Yvonne Strahovski -
Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
Gail Porter -
Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
Naftali Bennett -
As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.
Kara Swisher
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
Samuel Butler -
I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
Samira Wiley -
How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
Adam Mansbach -
I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
Young Jeezy -
Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
Lamar Odom -
The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
Usher
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
Walt Disney -
I have a tendency to talk extremely fast. ... I think the fastness comes from the fact that I get very excited about things and I just want to spit them out.
Shailene Woodley -
I've got a winner mentality, the mentality of a champion.
Lamar Odom -
Sometimes when I do an overdub solo, they'll keep four or five of my attempts and then mix the bits that they like to make a solo up out of them. It's not against the rules, really - I can learn my own solos, then. But that's the whole beauty of multi-track recording, isn't it?
Jeff Beck -
I cook. I walk. I go to the movies. I meditate.
Laura Esquivel -
Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
Kingsley Amis