Eve Babitz Quotes

I posed as an album-cover designer and photographer... That I today have some album covers and photographs to show for myself is a monument to the attention-to-detail of my disguise.

Eve Babitz

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Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.

Jenson Button

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I find Jessica Jones a much more interesting character to write for than Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is so noble and heroic, and I don't find that as interesting as one who's really damaged and flawed and has post-traumatic stress disorder.

Melissa Rosenberg

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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

Max Lerner

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When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days, read the paper, and then observe that, 'It's yet another great day to be the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.'

Michael Hayden

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NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

Michael Badnarik

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If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it's the same for your heart.

Toni Braxton

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As a director, I think it is important to keep a space between yourself and your film. It's like you are in the movie, but at the same time you are watching it from the outside.

Tony Jaa

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In our 21st-century celebrity culture, we seem to demand an all-or-nothing verdict on any departing figure of public stature.

Tom Tancredo

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I went to drama school and, after that, went to Paris to train at a place called Ecole Philippe Gaulier. When I came home, I realised I'd have to have a serious stab at it. I didn't have an agent and didn't have the traditional drama school showcase, so I started a comedy group with a couple of friends.

Mathew Baynton

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Music has always been in me.

Michelle Branch

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Sometimes the character will go into a completely different direction than I expected once the cameras start rolling. That's what I love about what I do.

Lorraine Toussaint

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Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

LL Cool J

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