Claron McFadden Quotes
I listen to a lot of non-classical music at home, but I don't get many opportunities to sing it.Claron McFadden
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I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
Maggie Stiefvater -
I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
Aasif Mandvi -
What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
Bassem Youssef -
I think America has a brilliant future.
Harold Evans -
I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
Vince Vaughn -
Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
Cam Gigandet
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
Lake Bell -
Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
Sam Kean -
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
Jack Vance -
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker -
The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
Felicity Kendal
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I never really did any disco dancing.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
Yuvraj Singh -
If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
Olivier Martinez -
Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
Rainn Wilson -
Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.
Madi Diaz -
I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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Love is a credulous thing.
Ovid -
Radio isn't just a jukebox for music anymore because you can get music anywhere.
Elvis Duran -
It cannot be so very surprising that I adopted a Communist viewpoint in the 1930s; so many of my contemporaries made the same choice. But many of those who made that choice in those days changed sides when some of the worst features of Stalinism became apparent. I stayed the course.
Kim Philby -
Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
Boris Johnson -
Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
Malcolm Mclaren -
I listen to a lot of non-classical music at home, but I don't get many opportunities to sing it.
Claron McFadden