Andrew Mellon Quotes
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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There are just so many young designers now.
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When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.
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Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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My music is a luxury.
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I love all the Pixar movies, and I like 'Happy Feet Two.' 'Cause it has a lot of babies.
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
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I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't have ideas as to what format it'd be, or how I'd do it. I'm not very good with plans. I didn't think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that was something I'd prevent.
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I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.
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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
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'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.
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My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.
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For all that faire is, is by nature good; That is a signe to know the gentle blood.
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I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.
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I've always looked to that play, 'Virginia Woolf,' for a cue - as far as any cue I might need as an actor for inspiration or as a writer.
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You can't afford for there to be gaps in your pool of knowledge when it comes to a character; otherwise, what ends up onscreen is generalized and unspecific.
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I've never written lyrics. I get up in front of a microphone, and I just sing what comes to the top of my head.
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This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
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Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third.
Colson Whitehead -
Gentlemen prefer bonds.
