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I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.

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• My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • House
  • Start
  • Stone

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • You
  • Serious

• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Life
  • Character
  • Bad

• Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.

  

  Hans Bender
  • You
  • Fashion
  • Create

• I hate negative ads in general.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Hate
  • Negative
  • General

• I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Real
  • Feel
  • Very

• When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Myself
  • Eye

• Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Up
  • Business
  • Job

• I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Beginning
  • Effort

• I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Inspiration
  • Actor

• I want to be like Bradley Cooper when I grow up.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Up
  • Want
  • Grow

• However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • May
  • American
  • Language

• I hate to travel with stuff.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Hate
  • Travel
  • Stuff

• In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Business
  • Running
  • Competition

• I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Many
  • Did
  • Dictators

• In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Energy
  • Permanent
  • Accurate

• You and I, we are the Church, no? We have to share with our people. Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not sharing. Jesus made it very clear. Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me. Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me. Clear.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Children
  • Mother

• There’s always another problem behind the one you just solved. Does that mean that you should stop solving problems?

  

  Larry Niven
  • Stop

• I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

  

  David Crosby The Byrds
  • God
  • Fun
  • Hope

• The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

  

  Margaret Halsey

• Some of my friends have urged me to tell people the basic story, but 'for God’s sake don’t mention the reptiles.'

  

  David Icke
  • People
  • God
  • Friends

• I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.

  

  Marcus du Sautoy
  • Children