Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
Eartha Kitt -
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
Ralph Fiennes -
You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
Maika Monroe -
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
Ferdinand Mount -
I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
Vin Diesel
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
Zack Snyder -
It's not healthy to be jealous.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
Orson Welles -
I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
Garry Shandling -
I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
Naftali Bennett
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Jack London -
I like to dress up every now and then.
Calvin Johnson -
What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
Barry Commoner -
I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.
Adam Green -
You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.
Adam Baldwin -
Positive thinkers think and talk continually about solutions, and negative thinkers continually talk and think about problems. Keep your mind solution-focuse d rather than problem- focused.
Brian Tracy
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Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.
J. C. Ryle -
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky -
No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
Jack L. Chalker -
If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.
Marian Wright Edelman