Suzy Menkes Quotes

The way that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform, determined to do something.

Suzy Menkes

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I can't get into talking about why another actor left. It has nothing to do with me.

Jimmy Smits

MeTalkingNothingWhyActorLeft

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.

Johannes Stark

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'Borne,' in a weird way, even though it's a totally different universe, picks up where the 'Southern Reach Trilogy' leaves off, because it's post-apocalyptic.

Jeff Vandermeer

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You have an awareness of your body and how to use it and I think that if you can embody a character physically it's another really useful tool.

Mia Wasikowska

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I just really want to make - to be cliche about it, I want to make pretty music. Like Roy Orbison or Elvis, man. Those guys made beautiful, tender music.

Sturgill Simpson

MusicBeautifulManWantPretty

The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band.

Steven Van Zandt

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Cancer is not just a dividing cell. It's a complex disease: It invades, it metastasizes, it evades the immune system.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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I want to try to prove that at 100, I could sing as well as I was singing when I was 45 or 43. I'd like to prove that if you take care of yourself, you can actually not regret the fact that you've become an old-timer, but you can just still improve and actually get better.

Tony Bennett

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I had one of those defining moments in the fourth grade when my teacher said the story I wrote was the best in the class, and therefore I would be going Young Authors Conference where I'd get to hang out with authors all day.

Lisa McMann

TeacherBestDayStoryMomentsSaid

No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that wish you were on the other side.

Jascha Heifetz

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As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.

Jonathan Coe

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Just remember, you're never too old to have a hero.

Chris Gardner

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