Amy Waldman Quotes
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.Amy Waldman
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
Bar Refaeli -
I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
Walton Goggins -
Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair -
My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
Farrah Fawcett -
I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
Laura Marling
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
Fiona Shaw -
I never met a stripe I didn't like.
Edgardo Osorio -
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
Fran Drescher -
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Pat Conroy -
Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
Yami Gautam -
Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
Edi Rama
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The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.
Federica Mogherini -
You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
Fiona Apple -
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
Jack Kornfield -
I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
M.I.A. -
Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
Yuna -
This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Ian Fleming
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Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
Derek Walcott -
At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.
Fred Saberhagen -
I'm very happy with what I can bring into Nightwish, but I will probably want to keep on writing things. And that can take many forms as well.
Floor Jansen Nightwish -
'The Hateful Eight' is like theatre.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them.
Umberto Eco -
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.
Amy Waldman