Alphonse Karr Quotes
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg -
I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
Garth Brooks -
My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
Kailash Kher -
Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
Taylor Dane -
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
Harmon Killebrew
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
Jack Canfield -
The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.
Edith Stein -
Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.
Edgar Wright -
'Any road', said Carlyle, 'even this road to Entepfuhl, will take you to the end of the world'. But the Entepfuhl road, if taken in its entirety, and to the end, goes back to Entepfuhl; so Entepfuhl, where we already were, is that very end of the world we were seeking.
Fernando Pessoa -
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!To all the sensual world proclaim,One crowded hour of glorious lifeIs worth an age without a name.
Walter Scott
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I was looking for a name like the Crickets that meant two things, and from crickets I got to beetles. And I changed to B E A because … B E E T L E S didn't mean two things, so I changed … the E to an A. And it meant two things then. … When you said it, people thought of crawly things; and when you read it, it was beat music.
John Lennon The Beatles -
The thing that has always disturbed me about
Linus Torvalds -
Jews are underdogs - not in my world, obviously, they're not.
Chelsea Handler -
I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'
Albert Brooks -
Movies should make people uncomfortable sometimes.
Ben Schnetzer -
I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy to it before you know what you're doing. I think some of the early Sonic Youth stuff was maybe like that.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
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I have Googled myself, yeah, I think everybody has. I try not to make a habit of it - in fact I made a rule once never to Google myself, which made me happy.
Aidan Gillen -
Wenn du einen vielbetretenen Weg lange gehst, so gehst du ihn endlich allein.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -
I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.
Madeleine Stowe -
We can invent only with memory.
Alphonse Karr