A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain
Recitation: by Male by Female
I get recognized a lot now. It's great.
Jeremy Sumpter
GreatNowGetRecognizedLot
Why can't I ever play a nice, normal, salt-of-the-earth type? Is there something I should know? It's fun to play villains and character roles, of course - but I'm sure it's also fun to be a really big star and play the lead in everything, where all you have to do is show up and not blink.
Megan Mullally
CharacterFunYouPlayKnowNice
I do find the sight of small children eating very moving. Watch the way their tiny fingers clamp the cutlery. The exaggeratedly precise way they move cups or glasses to their lips.
John Niven
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All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.
John Kricfalusi
AgeBetterYouMoreGoingArtists
No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past.
Robert Green Ingersoll
PastReligionChristianPartnership
I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.
John Scofield
CreativeFeelYouFlexibleLike
I start lighting pine-scented candles the day after Halloween.
Mary Page Keller
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My freshman year of high school, I started wrestling, and I ended up loving it more than anything I'd ever done.
Miesha Tate
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In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.
Mohsin Hamid
ExperienceYourselfWritingHelpYou
I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.
Miroslav Volf
LoveThinkPersonIndependentNeed
When I speak to people I worked with when I was young, they constantly tell me they wish their students would work half as hard as I did. I was always one to get a lot more out of myself, seeing the glass as half-empty rather than half-full.
Milos Raonic
WorkMyselfPeopleMeSpeakWish
Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it's going to change or save the world.
Jason Alexander
WorkLoveChangeWorldSelfish
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