Rod Stewart Quotes
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
Jack Nicholson -
Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
Wale -
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
J. D. Souther -
I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
Taylor Phinney -
I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.
Karan Singh Grover -
'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
Sam Simon
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
Vincent Cassel -
When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
Adam Grant -
Cute in Ireland meant cunning and devious … And I'm not sure that I'm not.
Malachy McCourt -
India didn’t play particularly well, but if you ask me I would say my best memory is we beat eventual winners Pakistan in a league match. It’s not a positive memory for me, but to say we beat the team which held the trophy makes me feel better.
Kapil Dev -
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
J. D. Salinger -
It had occurred to Rimford, at about the time he approached fifty, that the chief drawback in contemplating the enormous gulfs of time and space that constitute the bricks and mortar of the cosmologist is that one acquires a dismaying perception of the handful of years allotted a human being.
Jack McDevitt
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The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.
Benjamin Graham -
I wanted to have a reaction from the audience. I wanted to be able to talk to somebody, and not be talking just to myself. That's when I did 'The Conformist,' 'Last Tango in Paris,' etc. And I found it was incredibly rewarding, something new.
Bernardo Bertolucci -
Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
Alex Berenson -
I think my mother was baffled by me. We were polar opposites. She was shy and retiring. I was over-fond of the limelight. Many times in my life, I was conscious of embarrassing her with my carrying on.
Laurie Graham -
I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to - they like commercial music.
Al Walser -
Are you kidding? They had me at 'Star Wars.' The kid inside me would've clawed his way out and strangled me if I'd turned this job down.
Jason Aaron
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I'm not interested in clothes that just convey a certain look or fashion. Clothes for me have always been a form of self-expression.
Phoebe Philo -
The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.
Barack Obama -
People identify with other people for different reasons, and I personally am really comfortable around lesbians because, in some ways, we view women the same way.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
When you're hot, you try to ride it as long as you can.
Ben Zobrist -
I've been a golden boy for too long.
Rod Stewart