Andy Griffith Quotes
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I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'
Raekwon -
I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
Cara Buono -
I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
Walter Cronkite -
My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
Farrah Fawcett -
Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
Tammy Wynette -
Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
Laura Fraser -
I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
Rachel Kushner -
I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
Nathan Fillion -
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash -
My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
Langston Hughes -
I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
Barbara Broccoli
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
Taraji P. Henson -
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
W. Somerset Maugham -
There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.
Zhang Ziyi -
I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
Francesca Annis -
Kids are very cruel to each other.
Natalie Dormer
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After love, no one is what they were before.
Catherynne M. Valente -
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
Oscar Wilde -
Really, what's not to love in John McCain, satire-wise? As if he had not already been good enough to us, then came his nomination of Sarah Palin. Here, truly, was a gift from the gods of satire.
Christopher Buckley -
I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
Candice Olson -
Questions don't easily die within me until they're answered, and so being able to write a song and put words to complex feelings is part of my process of understanding and letting go of things.
Lucy Dacus -
I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky.
Andy Griffith