Ben Okri Quotes
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
Victoria Justice -
I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
Washed Out -
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
Ralph Nader -
I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
Carice van Houten -
A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
J. J. Watt
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
Karin Slaughter -
I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
Mandy Moore -
The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
Karin Slaughter -
In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
Pat Brown -
I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
Ted Sarandos
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
Hal Holbrook -
I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
Carlos Mesa -
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
E. O. Wilson -
I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
Barbara Rosenblat -
Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.
Jack Bowman
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For products with revision possibilities, there is no better source available than a company going out of business!
E. Joseph Cossman -
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.
Andy Rooney -
I've seen beautiful art on the sides of buildings. I've seen beautiful art in museums. I've seen beautiful art in galleries. Beautiful art is everywhere.
John Mellencamp -
Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
Bernie Worrell -
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
Ben Okri