Andre Gide Quotes
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.Andre Gide
Quotes to Explore
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
Vanessa Mae -
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie -
Power is the by-product of understanding.
Jacob Bronowski -
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
Ovid -
When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
Candice Patton -
With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
Rachel McAdams
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What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
Olympia Snowe -
My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
Gary Sinise -
If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
Lana Wachowski -
I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.
J. K. Simmons -
I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
Dan Hicks -
I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
Tate Taylor
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
Quentin Crisp -
At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
Dalai Lama -
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
Fay Weldon -
I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmaking that I did when I first started. Every film brings with it unique challenges and experiences, and I approach every one with the same enthusiasm.
Barbara Kopple -
I like to control my own personal life.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.
Jack Welch
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As a kid at the World's Fair in 1965, I missed seeing the big global population clock roll over from 2,999,999,999 to 3 billion - I was really disappointed.
Bill Nye -
Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.
Blaise Pascal -
I started doing improv my sophomore year.
Rachel Dratch -
Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
We knew that for E.T. to feel real, you had to have some connection to his eyes.
Kathleen Kennedy -
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide