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• Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Give
  • Terrible

• Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Alcohol
  • Necessary
  • Article

• Non-violence is the article of faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Violence
  • Nonviolence

• The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough ... Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Gospel
  • Treasure
  • Task

• I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Book
  • Inspiration
  • Storyteller

• In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Important
  • Moves
  • Article

• I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, 'You should never sing the lyrics out very clearly.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Remember
  • Lyrics
  • I Remember

• I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Say
  • Interview

• I've written for The Times because they have valued what I do enough to pay me. The New Statesman magazine also asked me to write an article, but they didn't want to pay me anything. To me, that shows how much they value quality journalism.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • The Times
  • New Statesman magazine
  • Value quality journalism

• We're not ignored by The Guinness Book Of Records, but we've been largely ignored by the media during our lifetime. If you read any article, no mention is ever made of Pink Floyd. We're never included in the same sentences as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who. I wrote 'The Wall' as an attack on stadium rock - and there's Pink Floyd making money out of it by playing it in stadiums! Pathetic. They spoiled my creations.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Lifetime
  • Creations
  • Guinness Book Of Records

• Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.

  

  Bob Frankston
  • Article
  • Picking
  • Reusing

• The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.

  

  Arthur Honegger
  • Composer
  • Article
  • Manufacturing

• Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Article
  • Cow

• Fifteen minutes of fame doesn't make a career. An article in a magazine, newspaper, interview on television or multiple print ads may stroke your ego, but nothing much else. An artist's career is a lifetime venture. Just because an artist is on top doesn't mean they are sheltered from a crash. As has been stated, the higher you climb, the harder you fall.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Career
  • Lifetime
  • Crash

• Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Foreign
  • Article
  • Impresses

• Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated character-nothing! See Light From Many Lamps, edited by L. E. Watson, article by H. E. Fosdick, pp. 93-94 re: a serious cripple who succeeded.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • World
  • Faith
  • Circumstances

• Lots of media people ask me what do you think of yoga in the gyms, and what do you think about this article and what do you think about that, and how about it's so commercial now. I say, look, whatever gets people turned on to it.

  

  Beryl Bender Birch
  • People
  • Yoga
  • Gyms

• Well first of all, I think the phrase 'jump the shark' has jumped the shark. I read it in every article and I think that when Fonzie actually jumped the shark, 'Happy Days' was on the air for another five years.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Happy
  • Air
  • Jump

• In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Article
  • Bunyan
  • Contemporary Review

• Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Man
  • Article
  • Healthy Body

• When you listen to the music, you can also see the film or read the article, and it's all part of the same journey that you get to take with the artist you're interested in. It's a balancing act.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Music
  • Film
  • Journey

• Eleanor Roosevelt started off almost every early article she wrote, starting with, "My mother was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen." And I think her life was a constant and continual and lifelong contrast with her mother.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Life
  • My Mother
  • Eleanor Roosevelt

• Today the Washington Post did an article; they compared the 2008 presidential election to the 1932 presidential election. They did a comparison, mainly because 1932 was the first time John McCain ran for president.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Today
  • Presidential

• It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Heart
  • Bad
  • Saying

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