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• I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Time
  • Will
  • Agenda

• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Heart
  • Myself
  • Find

• I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Always
  • System
  • Driven

• A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Review

• When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • World
  • Mind
  • Thought

• I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Movie
  • You

• We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Country
  • Power
  • Economic

• Our best thoughts come from others.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Best
  • Thoughts
  • Come

• I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Like

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • My Life

• Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • World
  • Great
  • Broken

• As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Up
  • Education
  • Control

• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Me
  • Present

• No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on some kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.

  

  Douglas Hofstadter
  • Question

• To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Equality
  • Race
  • Alaska

• There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Religion

• I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Different
  • Family
  • Truth

• Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.

  

  Pedro Martinez

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