Agnes Smedley Quotes
For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.Agnes Smedley
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
Saffron Aldridge -
You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin -
I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
Samantha Shannon -
You see movie stars advertising all sorts of things today for whatever reason. And it may be that it affords them the luxury to do smaller movies or to go and do a play. Because, otherwise, you have to keep doing movies where you get paid millions and millions of dollars to maintain a certain lifestyle.
Orlando Bloom -
It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.
Dakota Fanning -
We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
Ralph Steadman
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
Lady Gregory -
My main focus is to help people through music.
Candice Glover -
I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
Aaron Patzer -
Part of what we talk about is, toughness is a talent.
Dan Quinn -
No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
E. W. Howe -
I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
Rachel Dratch
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When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health insurance premiums.
Ted Deutch -
You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
Mahalia Jackson -
I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.
Nargis Fakhri -
Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
Ian Doescher -
Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.
Hank Johnson -
I feel like acting is something I've been working towards longer. And it would be great to win a Grammy, of course, but for some reason, an Oscar speaks more to me.
Vanessa Hudgens
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I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born to write a novel.
Cynthia Ozick -
I'm scared to death to fly commercial... I have not flown commercial since 9/11.
Brett Hull -
Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.
John Engler -
I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that.
Lindsey Buckingham -
For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
Agnes Smedley