W. S. Merwin Quotes
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Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
Aaron Spelling -
I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
Landon Donovan -
I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
Kate Moss -
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields -
I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
E. L. James -
With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
Kate Christensen
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It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
Iris Chang -
I'd never been published when I was young.
Jack Vance -
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
Eden Hazard -
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
Finley Peter Dunne -
Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
Samantha Bond
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
Gary Sherman -
When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.
Jack Ma -
You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
Aaron Rodgers -
When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.
Abhishek Bachchan -
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
Abel Ferrara
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Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers.
Edwin Arnold -
Obviously, in my twenties, a lot of downtime was spent having a good time, which I don't regret; that was what I needed to do to get some things out of my system.
Luke Grimes -
In South Korea, which is a much less conservative environment, politicians do not take their wives around with them as much as their American counterparts do. Showing pride in your wife is thought of as juvenile bad form. There's a special pejorative for people who do it.
Brian Reynolds Myers -
I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here.
W. S. Merwin