Ann Nocenti Quotes
I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.Ann Nocenti
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
Irving Babbitt -
In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
Barry Humphries -
If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
Natalia Tena -
I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
Barbra Streisand -
My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
Laura Hillenbrand
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
Dan Stevens -
I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
Wayne Huizenga -
What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
Earl Nightingale -
Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
Dan Webster -
I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
OMI -
I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
Jack Gilbert
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
Victor Hugo -
For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
Yolandi Visser -
If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
Baba Kalyani -
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Daniel Defoe -
No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
J. J. Watt -
You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
Sally Hawkins
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I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.
Nate Silver -
In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate.
Ajay Devgan -
If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news.
John Hawkes -
The type of girls that would sleep with you in a heartbeat aren't the type of girls I'd want to take home anyway.
Niall Horan One Direction -
It's just been a long week, that's all." "It's monday night, Jess." "My point exactly.
Scott Westerfeld -
I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.
Ann Nocenti