Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
Karan Mahajan -
When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, 'Hell yes, I'm going to captain this ship.' Then I was like, 'Oh, wait, you're losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.' That's Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.
Becky Lynch -
I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
Natascha McElhone -
The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
Larry Wilcox -
If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
Ina Garten -
If you want to be happy, make others happy!
Dada Vaswani
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
Natalie Portman -
Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
F. Sionil Jose -
That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
Victoria Pratt -
I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
Edmund White -
I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.
Oded Fehr -
Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
Maggie Siff
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Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.
Gabrielle Giffords -
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism.
H. L. Mencken -
Thus man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.
Washington Irving -
To return to the question of strategy...The Falkland Islands are unlikely to cause a major explosion.
Edward Heath -
The survivors lay quietly in that cratered void and watched the whitehot stars go rifling down the dark. Or slept with their alien hearts beating in the sand like pilgrims exhausted upon the face of the planet Anareta, clutched to a namelessness wheeling in the night.
Cormac McCarthy
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Of those to whom much is given, much is asked. I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.
Lyndon B. Johnson -
Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.
Alberta Hunter -
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
Denis Diderot -
Sex is not a necessary attribute of all living things.. it is a most necessary attribute if progress in evolution of new forms is to occur, as they have progressed through the ages and as we now see them progressing on this planet.
Luther Burbank -
Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning. ~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum -
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe