Quotes 241 till 260 of 1038.
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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
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Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.
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Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.
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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
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Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Source: Power in Words: The Stories Behind Barack Obamas Speeches, from the State House to the White House -
Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
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For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.
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For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.
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For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
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From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.
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Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
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Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.
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Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.
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Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
Source: Id love to kiss you-- : conversations with Bette Davis -
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
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Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn't have the data to back it up.
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