Landon Donovan Quotes

I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

Landon Donovan

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SportsWorldThinkYouSoccerNever

I don't really begin with ideas about genre. I certainly wrote a gothic novel, 'The Keep,' that conformed to and, in some ways, played with every convention I knew of to work with in the gothic, but the way I came to it was very instinctive and visceral.

Jennifer Egan

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With 'Sweetback,' I just put it together a little bit at a time. I didn't do it on anybody's grant. I did it like any other young executive - by cheating and stealing!

Melvin Van Peebles

TimeTogetherCheatingYoungLittle

I love Michael Keaton. I think he's awesome - he's such an awesome actor - like the 'Beetlejuice' films. I just love that Tim Burton stuff.

Matt Ryan

LoveThinkActorAwesomeJustStuff

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

Maurice Gibb

OpportunityPlayProveNeverPiano

We've always had this experience that things take long, but I'm 100% convinced that our principles will in the end prevail. No one knew how the Cold War would end at the time, but it did end. This is within our living experience... I'm surprised at how fainthearted we sometimes are and how quickly we lose courage.

Angela Merkel

CourageTimeExperienceWarCold

I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to a lot of realism both in the language and in the structure of a book.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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I made some choices that weren't right in the past. It cost me in terms of my confidence and everything.

Ana Ivanovic

ConfidencePastMeChoicesRight

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.

Michel Onfray

AmbitionWindYouDreamFragrance

I've always been a fan of 'Coronation Street,' and the chance to work on it was just too good to miss, but it meant a great upheaval for my family.

Debra Stephenson

WorkFamilyGoodGreatChanceMiss

I work very hard at creating complex characters, a mix of positives and negatives. They are all flawed. I believe flaws are almost universal, and they help us understand, sympathise and, paradoxically, feel closer to such characters.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

WorkBelieveFeelHelpFlawsHard

My mother had introduced me to a lot of my father's friends because she believed that I would get to know the guy my dad was better through his friends than just in the hospital visits.

Arlo Guthrie

FatherMotherMeBetterFriendsShe

I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.

William J. Clinton

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