Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
Nancy Sinatra -
Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
Frances McDormand -
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter -
President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
Randy Neugebauer -
Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
Ike Barinholtz -
V-necks are great because you can get a little fat and you still look kind of good - and I like to get fat sometimes, so it's nice. I like to fluctuate between the world of skinny and fat, so V-necks suit me well.
Zachary Knighton
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
Yann Martel -
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
Jackie Chan -
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
Hans Haacke -
I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.
Samantha Stosur -
I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
Octavia Spencer
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When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. I get so excited when I see Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, Ava Duvernay, and all these beautiful women working.
Kat Graham -
My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
Sadie Frost -
The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
Taylor Swift -
Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
Jack Keane -
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
Malcolm X -
I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
Natalie Martinez
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Because I used to play a lot of sport, I've always been in decent enough shape. When I used to get asked to do a bit of body work before a photo shoot I'd lie and say, 'Yeah, I'm going to the gym.' I literally never did anything.
Jamie Dornan -
From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe, wherever the four winds blowI been in some big towns an' heard me some big talk, but there is one thing I knowA woman's a two-face, a worrisome thing who'll leave ya to sing the blues in the night.
Johnny Mercer -
Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.
Ellen Datlow -
And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.
Katey Sagal -
Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.
Alfred Einstein -
Fear's what puts dreams to sleep.
Stevie Wonder