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• I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Free
  • Fear
  • Action

• When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Time
  • New York
  • Walk

• My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

  

  Hamlin Garland
  • Thinking
  • Nature
  • Day

• I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Different
  • Myself

• I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Career
  • You
  • Generation

• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Help
  • Religion
  • Practical

• A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Women
  • She
  • Man

• Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and playing in the beautiful parks.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Growing

• Society puts so much pressure on girls to look a certain way.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Society
  • Look
  • Pressure

• I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Life
  • Music
  • My Life

• At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Believe
  • School

• Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Mean
  • Poverty
  • Being

• She too had found the experience transforming. How could she not? A demon had been exorcised. Several. And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • She
  • Experience
  • Alone

• There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant

• It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Advice

• Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Silence
  • Ignorance

• Iraq's invasion of Kuwait defies every principle for which the United Nations stands. If we let it succeed, no small country can ever feel safe again. The law of the jungle would take over from the rule of law.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Country
  • Small
  • Law

• So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

  

  Kitty Carlisle
  • Up

• No one chains a slave without chaining himself.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Slave
  • Chains

• The Obama administration has been weak and inconsistent in enforcing immigration laws.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Immigration
  • Laws
  • Weak

• I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons and things that go bump in the night.

  

  Deborah Harkness
  • People
  • Today
  • Night

• I think music for me, it's part of my life. I like music. I think I'm very emotional, so, you know, I just try to take all the emotion, you know, that music bring it to me, you know, some make - I mean, help me to calm down some, for sure motivate me more. You know, there's always music. I think just make me smooth before the match, you know.

  

  Gael Monfils
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Emotional

• The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place.

  

  Anita Borg