Tony D'Souza Quotes

The O. Henry has become lingua franca among writers for saying, 'That guy can write a story.' It's prestigious, respected, coveted, dreamed about. It's very satisfying to be included in this group of writers. Here's a koan: Could O. Henry win an O. Henry?

Tony D'Souza

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I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

Jeremy Northam

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There are going to be certain aspects of anything you do that you're going to have to become stronger.

Jennifer Lien

StrongerYouBecomeAnythingGoing

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

Andy Grove

MeWorldQuietTakeGive MeGive

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.

Alvin Toffler

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Labeling people single parents, for example, when they may in fact be co-parenting - either with an unmarried other parent in the home or with an ex-spouse in a joint custody situation - stigmatizes their children as the products of 'single parenthood' and makes the uncounted parent invisible to society.

Stephanie Coontz

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When I started training, I just started running every day, which you shouldn't do. I learned that lesson the hard way by getting a stress fracture.

Sophia Bush

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I have a coach, but I'm not theater-trained or a technical actor.

Sibel Kekilli

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I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade. But then in higher secondary, there were only three people who got first division in arts, and I was one of them. So this tells you, where you put your mind and heart into, that's where you go.

Shiv Khera

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I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

Tom Wilkinson

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The last time I saw Elvis was when I played my second New Year's Eve show for him in 1970.

Ronnie Milsap

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I used to get beat up by my brothers, and that kind of built me into the man I am.

Luke Rockhold

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The fact is some people really love my work, some people not so much, but at the end of the day, I don't want anybody coming out of the movie thinking about me.

Joss Whedon

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