Lynne Truss Quotes
Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has softened our brains and made us forget that 'choice' used to mean something different from selecting options from menus?Lynne Truss
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
J. Reuben Clark -
It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
Malcolm Forbes -
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
Quintilian -
It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
Zoe Saldana -
The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
Edmund White -
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
Xavier Samuel -
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
Rachel Kushner -
I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
Callan McAuliffe -
To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
Irina Shayk -
I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
Orhan Pamuk
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
Larry Smith -
I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
Felicity Jones -
I want Bolivians to support their president.
Carlos Mesa -
I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.
Uday Kotak -
Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.
J. Michael Straczynski -
Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
Kailash Kher
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My livelihood depends on my surface beauty, but when I wash my face, I see a real person there.
Marie Helvin -
You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.
Zachary Levi -
Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better.
Oprah Winfrey -
The pace of television is very different from film.
Octavia Spencer -
Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has softened our brains and made us forget that 'choice' used to mean something different from selecting options from menus?
Lynne Truss