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Roald Dahl Quotes

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: September 13, 1916 - November 23, 1990

Topics

Children Feel Help Important Become

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

Music You Important Kind Special

If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

Money Financial Blessings You Want

A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.

Space People Theatre Page Conscience

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

Work Live New York Place New Going

Trump has become the star of our 24-hour political news cycle, and every pundit in America seems to be grabbing for some of the reflected light from his explosive campaign.

Light Political America News Become

And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time, given this incredible part which she did beautifully.

Time Kiss Nervous React She Her

Ronald Reagan had a kind of shallow movie-star charisma - a combination of makeup and the skill of a good actor - but it wasn't the real thing, and was something that he could turn off when the cameras weren't running.

Good Makeup Skill Kind Actor Turn

Floyd Mayweather, he's a safe fighter. He is who he is. He's not going to take any risks.

Risks Fighter Safe Take Going Who

Now that the there is a path for the people of Puerto Rico to express their self-determination on Puerto Rico's political status, there are some who seek to block that path.

Dick Thornburgh

Path People Political Puerto Rico

With each character in a movie, I'm looking for a human being. I'm looking for a person. And to me, I'm looking for a person that's full of strengths and weaknesses, a person that's full of successes and failures, a person that's full of joy and sorrow. I'm interested in people that are human beings that are alive.

Derek Cianfrance

Character Joy People Me Looking

I have made 34 pictures, 10 of them for Disney, and none of them for Disney were really bad characters. So I think that recently I have kind of begun to hide behind certain actor's devices in order to make a dividing line between what I used to do and the characters I have been asked to do today.

Today Think Bad Hide Pictures Kind

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

Bryant H. McGill

Best Yourself Control You Comfort

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