Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
Bai Ling -
I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.
Sam Heughan -
My parents always supported me and complimented me on other things, not just my looks. They told me I was capable, that I was smart, that I was creative.
Paloma Elsesser -
Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
Nathan Myhrvold -
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
Abu Bakr -
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
Oliver Herford
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I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.
Olivia Wilde -
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
Barbara Kingsolver -
Any job is wonderful.
Sam Jaeger -
People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.
Quavo Migos -
I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.
K. D. Lang -
My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
Hannah Kent
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I have decorated soldiers for heroism before, and it was always such an honor to do it.
Jack Keane -
Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.
Baz Luhrmann -
I always felt really alone because no one wanted to talk about the things that I enjoyed, and that was really rap music and hip-hop as a culture. You know, having the shoes, using the words, buying the magazines, seeing the videos. And I had nobody to share it with, so I feel like I lived a lot online.
Iggy Azalea -
For me, it's a matter of balance. Living inside your head and experiencing real things - both are important.
Gabriella Wilde -
There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black art' was and that it should embrace black history and black culture. There were all these rules - I was shocked, when I found it in a book, that it even existed, that it would demarcate these artists.
Kara Walker -
Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.
Vladimir Nabokov -
I perform in the major leagues of what I do. It's incredible.
Darrell Hammond -
Anytime you have to get intimate on camera, it's always a little interesting. You have to trick your brain almost, so that you don't get stage fright or get too much in your head where you're super uncomfortable.
Evan Rachel Wood -
The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love.
Frank Langella -
Avoir du mérite à s'abstenir d'une faute, c'est une façon d'être coupable.
Marguerite Yourcenar