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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
I never really did any disco dancing.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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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 -
Love is a credulous thing.
Ovid -
I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
Zach Galifianakis
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There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.
Raf Simons -
You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.
Christian Louboutin -
The last time I heard real screaming in the theatre was when I went to see a movie I did years ago, called 'Wait Until Dark.' Now, my mother was the least emotional person on the planet, but when I got killed in the movie, she stood up and screamed, 'That's my son!' At Radio City Music Hall in New York!
Alan Arkin -
I was always a courageous woman, capable of confronting governments but not men.
Jane Fonda -
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
Demosthenes -
I listen to a lot of non-classical music at home, but I don't get many opportunities to sing it.
Claron McFadden