Eleanor Porter Quotes
Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.Eleanor Porter
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I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
Xavier Dolan -
A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
Kate Reardon -
I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
Nancy Farmer -
Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
Sampha -
Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
Karen Kain
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In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.
M.I.A. -
I really hate to write.
Jack Kerouac -
I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.
Carla Gugino -
People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.
Randy Moss -
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
Naguib Mahfouz -
You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.
Usher
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I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.
Aaron Koblin -
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
Salman Rushdie -
As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.
Kara Swisher -
Let's be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man's mind and soul and heart, that's icing on the cake.
Lana Turner -
L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
Damian Lewis -
Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
Laura Donnelly
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In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with love And there may be many things we forget in the days to come, But this will not be one of them.
Brian Andreas -
It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.
Epictetus -
According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.
William Whewell -
I don't believe in a God. I don't believe in any of that stuff to determine my life or my goals or my direction. I just depend on myself.
Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine -
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle -
Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.
Eleanor Porter