E. L. Doctorow Quotes
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
Queen Latifah -
A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
Edmund Phelps -
I am from the Kardashian group. We can take anything.
Caitlyn Jenner -
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Walter Benjamin -
Writers should provoke disagreement.
V. S. Naipaul -
I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
Mandy Patinkin
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
Gaby Hoffmann -
If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
Abhishek Bachchan -
I don't believe in strong-arming people.
Zachary Levi -
It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
Ornette Coleman -
It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.
Dan Phillips
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
Nathan Lane -
I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
Hans Rosling -
I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
Samuel L. Jackson -
Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
Nathan Fillion -
Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
Kate Walsh -
However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.
Ted Allen
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We would love to have other children. It hasn't happened. We haven't been lucky enough.
Marg Helgenberger -
Judy Garland, Doris Day, and Gene Kelly were all big influences growing up from all of the films. I'm also a huge folk music fan - Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan have influenced a lot of how music can inspire change in our world.
Lindsay Mendez -
I can sing, don't get me wrong, but it's no belting singing.
Jeremih Felton -
Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
Patricia Riggen -
Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
E. L. Doctorow