Ashley Madekwe Quotes
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My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
Wayne Dyer -
To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
Venus Williams -
I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
Larry David -
Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
Naftali Bennett -
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
V. S. Naipaul -
I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
Karen Traviss -
I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
Nancy McKeon -
I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
Olivia Colman -
What is sought can never produce the seeking.
B. F. Skinner -
America is a meritocracy.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
Malala Yousafzai
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Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out.
Taylor Swift -
We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
Oliver Tambo -
I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd rather just pick up the phone. Or Skype.
Zara Phillips -
I love big summer dresses, and it sucks because I'm such a little person, so I always have to be very specific about which ones I put on.
Becky G -
My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
Naguib Mahfouz -
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
Cameron Sinclair
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Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf.
Jonas Mekas -
I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world.
Ban Ki-moon -
I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.
Mike Lookinland -
Tahiti is very far away, and I knew that I should never see it again. A chapter of my life was closed, and I felt a little nearer to inevitable death.
W. Somerset Maugham -
The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical.
F. Lee Bailey -
If I love something, I wear it to death!
Ashley Madekwe