Alison Lurie Quotes
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
Dabney Coleman -
The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
Val Kilmer -
Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
Jack Keane -
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
Ralph Steadman -
I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
Kate Atkinson -
I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
Rachel Nichols
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
Laura Ingraham -
You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
Yoko Ono -
There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
Federica Mogherini -
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
Adam Arkin -
I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
Jack Bruce Cream
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
Facundo Pieres -
See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
Patricia Clarkson -
And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
Warren Beatty -
I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
Ramez Naam -
Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
Patricia Ireland -
The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony.
Hans Blix
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
Dan Deacon -
If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.
Willem de Kooning -
Let the others come after us, we welcome the chase.
Bill Struth -
It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
Vince Flynn -
I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be the right road to somewhere else, because there are no wrong roads to anywhere. Do you think it will rain?
Norton Juster -
We say something every morning when we decide how to dress.
Alison Lurie