Ellen Potter Quotes

Books are such quiet things - created in silence, read in silence - yet publishing a book has become a very noisy business. I've been noisy, too. I felt like I had to be in order to connect with my readers.

Ellen Potter

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The dream was to be a prima ballerina.

Stephanie Corneliussen

DreamBallerinaPrima

Film and theater are about misdirection and making the audience see something. I find it interesting. One of the things we do in 'True Blood' is shoot all of our stunts in camera. Instead of doing some kind of visual effect, we try to make it happen.

Stephen Moyer

Make It HappenInterestingDoingFind

You're going to find out who your friends are. Anything that happens in your life is one of those challenges. It may not be at the level of celebrity, but everybody's going to travel that road.

Stanley A. McChrystal

LifeTravelChallengesRoadFriends

Psychologists say don't expect your life to be happy all the time. I go with the philosophy that every day can't be tops. Life is not like that - it's up and down.

Shirley Eaton

LifeTimeDayHappyBe HappyDown

My dream was always to be on the production side of things. Even as a little kid, when my dad would bring me to the studio, I always loved that.

Shooter Jennings

MeLovedDreamKidAlwaysSide

Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That's why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It's for the experience.

Travis Kalanick

ExperienceCell PhoneElegancePhone

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

Roberto Bolano

LifeArtLieDamnMattersRealize

I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.

Romesh Gunesekera

ThinkBecomeWriteWouldKnewTried

I was always feisty, always that kid that would be on the porch with a hairbrush singing or rapping.

Missy Elliott

SingingKidAlwaysPorchWould

I like a girl with a good personality that I can have fun with. If I am taking you out on a date, let's eat burgers and cheese fries.

Lucky Blue Smith

GoodGirlPersonalityI AmFunYou

You're always just trying to create opportunities and be ready when those opportunities present themselves. I can't look at anybody and think 'I want to be Damian Lewis' - I'd be setting myself up for failure.

Diego Klattenhoff

FailureMyselfOpportunitiesThink

The way that worms and viruses spread on the Internet is not that different from the way they spread in the real world, and the way you quarantine them is not that different, either.

David Ulevitch

WorldInternetYouWayRealSpread

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