Margaret Atwood Quotes
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
Fernando Botero
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I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
Ralph Fiennes
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
Caitlyn Jenner
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Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a whole different life: I jump on my bike, and it's so small, I can be anywhere in a minute. I like to be at home when there's free time because when you're at a big company, you're constantly surrounded by 30 people.
Raf Simons
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I have the highest goals for myself. That's going out there and being the best player on the floor every time. That's my mentality. If it's Michael Jordan, you know, that's the mentality I take to the court.
Zach LaVine
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I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.
Taron Egerton
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Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.
Walter F. Mondale
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I'm happy that people have loved my film and my work. I have always let my work do the talking, and I guess I have proved to my critics that I'm not over.
Rani Mukerji
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Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's possible. And it's your turn. So go for it. It's never too late to become what you always wanted to be in the first place.
J. Michael Straczynski
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My aunt was so attuned to commercials that she could always identify the voiceover actor.
J. K. Simmons
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Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.
T Bone Burnett
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There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.
Jack Kemp
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Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.
Lady Gaga
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Cede repugnanti; cedendo victor abibis.
Ovid
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My appearance still made people laugh, with that hearty jovial laugh so good for the health.
Samuel Beckett
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'You're really, truly not going to kill everyone?' asked Marek. 'No!' shouted Arthur. 'Why do you keep asking? Do I look like some kind of crazy murderer?' 'No...' Marek sounded as if he did still think that but didn't want to upset Arthur.
Garth Nix
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I feel I no longer fit in with these times.
Calvin Coolidge
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Alles, was man vergessen hat, schreit im Traum um Hilfe.
Elias Canetti
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Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard
Lois McMaster
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Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.
Chris Lilley
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I knew I could sing when I was about 7 years old. But since athletics was very much the forefront of my life, and I was kind of doing that a lot, I don't think anybody was caring or looking for me to be singing anything. So, yeah, I just kept it hidden from everyone.
Liv Warfield
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You can think clearly only with your clothes on.
Margaret Atwood