Octavia E. Butler Quotes
Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.Octavia E. Butler
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
P. L. Travers -
I'm not Cinderella.
Valerie Trierweiler -
Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
P. J. O'Rourke -
From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
Madeline Kahn -
This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
Harold Brodkey -
The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
Felipe VI of Spain
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
Zooey Deschanel -
I want to have an impact on my son.
Orlando Bloom -
Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
Daniel Boulud -
I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
Ed O'Neill -
I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
Rachel Weisz
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My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.
Kate Walsh -
Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
Candace Parker -
We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
Barack Obama -
When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
Orlando Bloom -
I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
Jacob deGrom -
Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
Ulrich Beck
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There is something exciting when you see people who are very formal talking with each other, and there is a sense that they have chosen to be that way. There is something masked that is more interesting to me than just people who are intent on displaying their uniqueness or whatever.
Bill Pullman -
I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
Bruce Cockburn -
Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
Haldan Keffer Hartline -
As it happens, Cumberland was on the verge of bankruptcy and had to give up football. But the villainous Heisman made it play a game that had been scheduled when Cumberland still had a team, or Heisman threatened to demand a $3,000 forfeiture fee that could well have put the school out of existence.
Frank Deford -
Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.
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