AJ Lee Quotes
I want people to know where I come from. I think I have come really far from that, and I did it on my own. It's sort of the American dream to come from absolutely nothing and to succeed while still doing something that you love. Not compromising yourself in any way. I hope I'm making Jersey proud in that way.AJ Lee
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
Barbara Corcoran -
I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.
Malala Yousafzai -
There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
Octavia Spencer -
Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
Umberto Eco -
Humour allows people to exhale a little.
Zach Anner -
In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
Ed O'Neill
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Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.
Irvine Welsh -
The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
Famke Janssen -
You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.
Oscar De La Hoya -
I don't know that happy people are interesting to write about - or to read about.
Patrick deWitt -
I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
Natalie Babbitt -
I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.
Paloma Faith
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I can't believe that I was one of those people who said 'I'm not really a sci-fi fan.'
Magda Apanowicz -
People have to do what they want to do.
J Mascis -
If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
Irvin S. Cobb -
It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.
Daniel Barber -
My dream is to go spend a week on some island with no phone.
Cara Delevingne
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For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.
Brian Kernighan -
I definitely try to play a common man in my roles so people can identify with my characters, but the truth of the matter is that it doesn't really matter what I do or my lines are, I'm still Zach Braff, and people know I'm better than them.
Zach Braff -
I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
Felicia Day -
All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be.
Quentin Bryce -
I want people to know where I come from. I think I have come really far from that, and I did it on my own. It's sort of the American dream to come from absolutely nothing and to succeed while still doing something that you love. Not compromising yourself in any way. I hope I'm making Jersey proud in that way.
AJ Lee