Ana Castillo Quotes
I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.Ana Castillo
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
Nathan Kirsh -
I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
Lalla Ward -
The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
Edmund White -
I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
Zachary Levi -
If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
Iain Banks
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
Macaulay Culkin -
When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
Brown Campbell -
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
J. G. Ballard -
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
Ed Asner -
Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
F. H. Bradley -
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
Oriana Fallaci
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
Dada Vaswani -
When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
Yoko Ono -
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
Mahalia Jackson -
There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.
Maggie Rowe -
Stay calm and aggressive.
Gabrielle Reece
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
Zubin Mehta -
American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.
Don McLean -
We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.
Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
Rachel Roy -
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
Karl Kraus -
I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.
Ana Castillo