Charles Albert Gobat Quotes
No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.Charles Albert Gobat
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
Ildar Abdrazakov -
My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
Raf Simons -
I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
Ted Allen -
Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
Yoko Ono -
When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
Gary Jennings -
You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
M. J. Rose -
That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
Naomi Watts -
I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
Malorie Blackman -
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
Hannes Alfven -
China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
Zhang Xin -
I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
Frances McDormand
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
Nancy Astor -
To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'
Cam Gigandet -
I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.
M. J. Rose -
If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
Vincent Cassel -
There is a certain danger in thinking about diversity in its own little box, as something that is somehow separate from 'normal' comic books and comics creators.
G. Willow Wilson -
At 9 P.M., everything goes off - and it's hard. But it's something you've got to do. I'm wasting my life.
Zoe Foster Blake
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All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.
Meghan O'Rourke -
I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacific' named Merriell Shelton, and now I'm playing Elliot Alderman.
Rami Malek -
Only the sinner has the right to preach.
Christopher Morley -
Let every man be true and every god a liar.
Samuel Butler -
I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.
Fred Couples -
No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.
Charles Albert Gobat