V. S. Pritchett Quotes
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.V. S. Pritchett
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
Tamara Mellon -
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Pablo Picasso -
It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
Dan Colen -
I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
Jack Kilmer -
Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
Oscar Isaac -
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Edmund Burke
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
Owen Chamberlain -
I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
Sam Raimi -
We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
Cameron Winklevoss -
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
Samuel Butler -
New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.
Natalie Portman -
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I couldn't wipe the grin off of my face. But Bobby DeNiro was really, really sweet and made me feel very comfortable. He's very low-key and just a superstar professional, and totally someone to be admired.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
Barbra Streisand -
My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I was a sophomore in college, and I did an industrial video about how to use the Internet - that dates me! It was with John Turturro, somehow they had gotten John Turturro to do this thing, and I was so excited and so nervous I probably drank 10 cups of coffee that morning.
Warren Kole -
Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.
Viktor Orban -
My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
Kary Mullis
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What we do is service a story first, and then you figure out how to pay for it later. If the narrative isn't your primary focus, then the movie is going to become diluted, and you don't have a movie that is as good as it could be, so it probably won't make as much money.
Joe Russo -
'It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne.
Carey Mulligan -
The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.
Eric Topol -
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
Seamus Heaney -
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.
V. S. Pritchett