Anne Tyler Quotes
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I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
Tadashi Shoji -
I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
Paloma Faith -
I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
Samira Wiley -
I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
Zaha Hadid -
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
Patrick Swayze -
All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
D. H. Lawrence
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
Abbas Kiarostami -
I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
Ira Sachs -
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
Jack Kornfield -
Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
B. B. King -
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Oscar Wilde
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
Gautam Singhania -
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
Zac Brown Band -
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
Edmund Morgan -
Mom still has a huge, beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The whole family comes together after midnight mass and has the traditional plum cake and wine. We spend the night at mom's home, and in the morning we wake up and open the presents. In the afternoon, we sit down to have a traditional Christmas lunch.
Malaika Arora Khan -
I'll try anything once.
Yancy Butler
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As I've gotten older, I've become much more effective at seeking and accepting help and bringing other people into the discussion. You start to understand that you can't control or fix everything on your own.
Joanna Coles -
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
Adrian Anthony Gill -
I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
Olivia Munn -
For my fifth birthday, I got a small tennis racket. That's how I started.
Ana Ivanovic -
I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.
Flume -
I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
Anne Tyler