Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
Paddy Considine -
Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
Nancy Pelosi -
My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
Kate Bush -
I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
Tammy Duckworth -
The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
Jack O'Brien -
One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
Ed Belfour
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
Ida Tarbell -
In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.
Jackie Chan -
This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
Lakshmi Mittal -
When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
Rachel Kushner -
You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
Paddy Considine -
If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
Nate Ruess Fun.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H. L. Mencken -
I always liked spy stories.
Walter Wager -
I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
Earl Weaver -
I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.
Bas Rutten -
When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
Carine Roitfeld -
I don't have a huge breakfast, and I sometimes forget to have lunch, so I focus on dinner. I love Thai and Japanese food.
Saffron Aldridge
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Everybody needs somebody.
Mahalia Jackson -
People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.
Christina Aguilera -
Wait on God and He will work, but don't wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are we detached enough from our spiritual hysterics to wait on God? To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
Oswald Chambers -
I want to put myself in the best position to stay out on the floor.
Mohamed Bamba -
By seeking and blundering we learn.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe