Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
Vikram Seth -
I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
Halle Berry -
The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
Watt Key -
Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
Tawakkol Karman -
I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter
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Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
Kate Middleton -
Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.
Ian Hacking -
You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
Abraham Verghese -
In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
Zachary Levi -
We made music that wouldn't be in synch.
Wayne Coyne
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I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'
Foster Friess -
There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
Yehuda Amichai -
It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.
Irvine Welsh -
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
W. H. Auden -
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill -
People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.
T.I.
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You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.
John Travolta -
To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
Irina Shayk -
ὦ Ζεῦ͵ πάτερ Ζεῦ͵ σὸν μὲν οὐρανοῦ κράτος͵ σὺ δ΄ ἔργ΄ ἐπ΄ ἀνθρώπων ὁρᾶις λεωργὰ καὶ θεμιστά͵ σοὶ δὲ θηρίων ὕβρις τε καὶ δίκη μέλει.
Archilochus -
...the question now was...whether that beautiful fabric the English constitution...was to be maintained in that freedom...for which blood had been spilt; or whether we were to submit to that system of despotism, which had so many advocates in this country.
Charles James Fox -
I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
Damien Chazelle -
It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
Arthur Conan Doyle