Ava Gardner Quotes
I thought I was making fifty dollars a week at MGM, but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.
Ava Gardner
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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
Lara Flynn Boyle
I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'
Hari Kunzru
No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
Malcolm X
It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.
Pat Robertson
The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
Marc Almond
Soft Cell
If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.
R. L. Stine
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Samuel Johnson
in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.
Alison Lurie
You could have all the tools in the world, but if you really don't want to be there, or if there's something that's off course that's playing on your mind... the game of golf is so mental, and if you don't have everything in the right order, it's very difficult to win golf tournaments.
Jason Day
I'm a positive guy, even if I don't smile a lot.
James Arthur
But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
Anthony Trollope
I thought I was making fifty dollars a week at MGM, but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.
Ava Gardner