Anna Held Quotes
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I read part of it all the way through.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
Viet D. Dinh -
I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
J. D. Vance -
I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.
Karen Black -
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
Ma Jian -
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
Oscar Niemeyer
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I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.
Dallas Roberts -
People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
Laura Osnes -
While I knew that individuals had in history - and still could - make a difference, it seemed presumptuous - even pompous - to imagine that I could be part of it, that I could be one of them.
Samantha Power -
'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
J. R. Smith -
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
Fanny Brice -
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Samuel Daniel
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I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
Ted Demme -
I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
Samantha Fox -
Gene Wilder is so funny.
Kate Bush -
They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'
Natalie Portman -
Are you in my dream too?
M. Night Shyamalan -
The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.
Hamza Yusuf
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Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup.
Nancy Kress -
Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.
Liz Phair -
The only thing that stands between you and grand success in living are these two things: getting started and never quitting!
Robert H. Schuller -
Sometimes a song becomes rhetoric, but you have to really empathise. You also have to leave room for both sides of the argument: even if you're not telling the other side, you have to put that part in parentheses and make sure it's understood.
Jason Isbell -
We had so many friends who did the band thing, and one of their first moves was to go on tour, and they'd just blow all their money.
Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots -
I do not care for the money, just for the glory.
Anna Held