Manal al-Sharif Quotes

For me, driving - or the right to drive - is not only about moving from A to B; it's a way to emancipate women. It gives them so much liberty. It makes them independent.

Manal al-Sharif

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WomenMeMovingDriveDrivingWay

There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.

Joe Mantegna

PeopleMeAdviceWillWhateverCome

The most powerful people in my town were the doctors and the lawyers. I didn't really have any experience dealing with really powerful people until I started practicing law.

Megyn Kelly

ExperiencePeopleLawPowerfulMost

I first began with the recorder in our community music school. After that, I played horn and participated in the school orchestra.

Max Martin

MusicCommunitySchoolFirstOur

Think about trailers you see in theaters. If you're seeing a Warner Bros film, the studio might have three of the five trailers. So having a hit helps you create the next hit.

Anita Elberse

ThinkYouSeeingCreateThreeSee

When I first went to L.A., I really hated it. I had this preconceived idea of what it would be like. You think of Hollywood as this beautiful place, but everything looks rundown and old.

Sophie Lowe

BeautifulThinkBeautiful PlaceYou

I dream for a living.

Steven Spielberg

DreamLivingI Dream

The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.

Tony Gilroy

AloneTimeWindWritingShopping

I got a Cadillac Escalade. Put some rims on it, threw a couple TV's in there, and installed a system. I stuck my Xbox in there. I had to go for it.

Michael Phelps

GoGo For ItSystemCadillacStuck

When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don't want things that are not useful. Sometimes you go to hotels and there are all these frames and pictures of people you don't know, and you end up hiding everything in the drawer, and then housekeeping come and put it out again.

Diane von Furstenberg

BeautifulPeopleEndHotelYouKnow

The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to see our economy really grow, we need to encourage migratory capital to become productive capital - capital invested for the long-term in empowering innovations.

Clayton M. Christensen

FinancialGrowAmericanHelpBecome

No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'

Anthony Horowitz

HateTwoWriterWordSustainReally

I have a way of synthesizing. That's what I would encourage any young person to do: take in the ideas, the conflicts, and the world. Watch and listen and live before you go public.

William Hurt

LiveIdeasWorldYouPersonYoung

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