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 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 -
Men get laid, but women get screwed.
Quentin Crisp
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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 -
I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.
Harpo Marx
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When you are in the big competition for the first time, you grow, and then you lose something when you go back into your own competition.
Claudio Ranieri -
The holy scriptures as well as the local and General Authorities of the Church provide a safety net of counsel and guidance for the people of the Church.
James E. Faust -
I'm not going to tell the American president how to run America, but I think it is important that when friends are speaking to each other that they are able to be very frank in the views that are exchanged, and I certainly will be doing that.
Leo Varadkar -
I don't have phobias. I'm pretty laid back. Nothing really bothers me. I can handle things pretty well.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead -
Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over.
E. M. Forster -
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