Barbara Demick Quotes

In 1949, Mao Tse-tung's Communists established the People's Republic of China, and the following year, his People's Liberation Army invaded central Tibet.

Barbara Demick

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In scoring, I usually start with a sound or group of sounds, searching out what feels right.

Jim Coleman

StartGroupSoundRightSearching

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

TodayTomorrowNeverStarted

Ideally, you will never know that you're seeing a computer-generated car.

John Knoll

CarYouSeeingKnowWillNever

My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.

John McCain

FearOrganizationDoingRealGive

When someone goes, 'Oh, this group is really pissed off at what you said,' there's not a piece of my body that goes, 'Sweet!' That means I did it wrong. I'm just trying to make people laugh.

Trey Parker

PeopleSweetLaughSomeoneYouBody

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Tom Stoppard

ChildhoodYouBecomeNeverCarry

I tend to be very private. It's easier for me. When you're acting, you're very susceptible to comments that somebody makes, so if they know something is going to happen on the show, and they say something, it can actually throw you off. So I tend to not share things with anybody.

Tom Noonan

MeYouActingKnowSayThey Say

'Commander in Chief' became a show not about why we should have a woman president but why we should not have a woman president.

Rod Lurie

WomanWhyPresidentShowChief

I'm more rooted in new plays and new writing.

Brendan Coyle

WritingNewMoreRootedPlays

Giftedness gives you this amazing tool kit for handling self-discipline and gives you an area of knowledge, but then it also gives you this weird set of aspirations.

Alissa Quart

KnowledgeAmazingWeirdYouTool

If I am out in the street or buying bread or taking a taxi, no one knows who I am.

Sylvie Guillem

I AmBreadStreetOutTaxiBuying

I don't know about style mistakes.

Pharrell Williams

StyleMistakesKnowAbout

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