Margaret Haddix Quotes
I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.Margaret Haddix
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
Wale -
What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
Harland Williams -
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx -
I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
Barry McGuire -
There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
Verne Troyer -
I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
Kate Bush
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
Edith Pearlman -
Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
Ira Glass -
This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle -
Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
Jack Canfield -
Prayer is man's greatest power!
W. Clement Stone -
This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
Walter Murch
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
Irina Shayk -
Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
Carl Hiaasen -
Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
Abraham Lincoln -
Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
Fede Alvarez -
I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.
Ram Shriram
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Karl Marx -
I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
Orlando Bloom -
The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.
James Schuyler -
I was born in New York in 1904.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Harmonies are nice.
Maurice Gibb Bee Gees -
I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.
Margaret Haddix