David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
Laura Dern -
I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
Carine Roitfeld -
Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
Owen Wilson -
You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
Sam Shepard -
You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
Said Nursi
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
J. Courtney Sullivan -
As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
Fat Joe -
It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
Taylor Swift -
First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we have software as a service; we have applications. Nobody has everything except us. We also have data as a service.
Safra A. Catz -
When I was younger, I read all the great food memoirs, by M.F.K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin and Julia Child and Nicolas Freeling and Ruth Reichl, and felt flooded with a sense of comfort and safety.
Kate Christensen -
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
Ayn Rand
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Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
Leo Burnett -
You can’t magically change your gender. You can’t magically change your sex. You can’t magically change your age.
Ben Shapiro -
We always make a hot breakfast for the kids: oatmeal, pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs, the whole deal. We like to have that time in the morning together as a family.
Patti Scialfa -
I'd like to have a family.
Maria Sharapova -
However spontaneous I hope a photograph will look, I always put a lot of thought into how I can make it happen. The very best pictures are the most relaxed, so a lot of fussing around technically can completely break the spell, and everyone freezes up with nerves.
Mario Testino -
Love your parents, but don't have them as your mates.
James Nesbitt
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It's not about giving back if you're successful or a celebrity or how much money you have: it's about your responsibility as an adult to help others.
Trisha Yearwood -
Jack Ryan made the right decision, ... I know it must have been a difficult one.
Dennis Hastert -
I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas -
I have an obligation as a writer to tell a story as interestingly as possible, but with integrity and not inserting false drama... I'm looking to be subtle, but being a wordsmith does not interest me - I want to communicate.
Jonathan Coleman -
The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.
David Bowie