Margaret Halsey Quotes
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When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.
Otto Preminger -
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson -
I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.
Gaby Hoffmann -
What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
Yo-Yo Ma -
It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.
Cara Delevingne -
Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.
P. J. O'Rourke
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
Fareed Zakaria -
I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap.
Action Bronson -
I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.
Kate Beckinsale -
I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
Laura Wade -
One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.
Nancy Horan -
While the average well adjusted man can make the reality that is generally accepted as truth into his own truth, the creative searcher after truth seeks and finds his own truth which he then wants to make general.
Otto Rank
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There’s obviously always danger in making music or art for art’s sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.
Steven Curtis Chapman -
I'll fucking beat the fuck out of you.
Justin Bieber -
I started a student organization that was basically designed to connect students with homeless folks. We visited them and sometimes brought food, but mostly we were there for swapping stories.
Matthew Desmond -
I wake up around seven, and I give my daughter breakfast. I spend the first hour or two of her day with her.
Kay Cannon -
The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.
Andrea Bocelli -
My grandfather left Cuba when Castro came into power and literally left everything. He had two suitcases and two kids and showed up in New Jersey and waited for my uncle to meet up with him. Imagine - there were no cell phones back then!
Chrissie Fit
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We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.
Buenaventura Durruti -
No one knows who the real me is, so I can be a hundred different kinds of me.
Kristen Schaal -
Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.
Ernest Gaines -
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
Otto von Bismarck -
What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.
Chubby Checker -
The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
Margaret Halsey