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“Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.”

Soul Found Catastrophe Richness Richness Of Life

“I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.”

Looks Found Bits Kings Various Attractive Girlfriend Interviews Lions Cartoon Exes Ex Girlfriend Lion King

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.”

Choices Found Areas Parkinson Parkinson's

Author:Michael J. Fox

“If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.”

People Ifs Long Ends Enough Found Sticks Awards Survivor Receiving Referring Prestigious

Author:Martha Reeves

“My little brother is autistic, so I would love to be involved in a charity for autism, but I haven't found the right one yet.”

Littles Found Havens Brother Involved Charity Autism Autistic Little Brother My Little Brother

Author:Nikki Reed

“Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.”

Wells Mean Shows Film Found Horror Elements Filmmaker Gross Horror Film

Author:Sam Raimi

“Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.”

Found Generations Profession Pilots Better Off

Author:Chesley Sullenberger

“In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.”

Stills Stories Film Found Objects Elements Mature Storyteller Documentaries Good Story Arcs Documentary Films Found Objects

Author:Garth Stein

“Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.”

Want Actors Found Can Do Wonderful Mets Actresses What You Want Boss Just Friends

Author:Lea Seydoux

“I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle.”

Ifs Trying Universe Found My Own Struggle Battle My Own Life

Author:Michael Stuhlbarg

“While it has been hurtful to my family and me to read constantly in the media that I was under investigation, I am pleased that as expected my spending has been found to be in order.”

Has Beens Order Found Media My Family Spending Expected Investigation Hurtful Been Hurt

Author:Peter Slipper

“No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.”

Shows Found Fashion Solutions Fashion Show

Author:Anna Sui

“Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.”

Book Real Might Found Written Subjects Importance Conducting

Book:On Conducting

Source: On Conducting

“The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed.”

Doe Hands Found Unions Composition Hand In Hand Conductor

Author:Anton Seidl

“The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.”

Mean Found Land Conditions Fixed Consideration Improving Propose Possessing Residence

Book:Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during ... 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831: with observations on New South Wales

Source: Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during ... 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831: with observations on New South Wales

“I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.”

I Can Moving Certain Found Can Do Projects Sitting Moving Forward Productive Sitting Around Obsessing

Author:Danny Strong

“I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.”

People Want Whole Happens Found Careers Best Things

Author:Delia Smith

“To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.”

Hard Joy Found Honest Hard Work Noble Being Honest Right Thing Anxious Dealings Elude Being Irish

Author:Fiona Shaw

“Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.”

Earth Found Groups Species Fossils Fractions Sample Never Expect Paleontology

Author:George Gaylord Simpson

“The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.”

“What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.”

Knows Desire Found Powerful Oneself Stranger

Book:The Brain-Dead Megaphone

Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone

“This is an old family secret, and I just found this out recently, and it almost broke my heart. My mother said to me, 'I had never told you this, but God, you were an ugly baby'.”

Heart Said Mother Found Secret Baby My Heart Ugly Broke Broke My Heart

Author:John Stamos

“Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.”

Made Important Found Process Rhythm Formal Sections Timbre

Author:Karlheinz Stockhausen

“Changes, cyclic or otherwise, within the solar system or within our galaxy, would seem to be the easy and incontrovertible solution for everything that I have found remarkable in the stratigraphical record.”

Seems Science Found Easy Records Solutions Remarkable Galaxy Solar System

Author:D. V. Ager

“It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.”

Knows May Ideas Reality Found Principles Knowledge Greater Gains Certainty Reasoning Description Possessed Incomplete Exhibits Analogies

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

“Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis.”

May Might Next Found Chance Principles Becoming Republican Damage Senate Romney November Gop

Author:George Will

“The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on living beings.”

Writing Doe Found Effects

Book:The Politics of History

Source: The Politics of History

“All answers are only found in the super-conscious. It takes us to a point where we don't ask questions anymore because that part of us which would ask goes away.”

Wisdom Asks Found Answers Buddhism Conscious

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will notice a subtle smile on your face.”

Mind Happiness Faces Found Effort Meditation Buddhism Flow Eternity Subtle Your Face Smile On Your Face

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around.”

Writing I Can Sometimes Enough Helping Found Hours Dinner Productive Enough Time Sneaking Up

Author:Michael Crichton

“All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.”

Men Writing Long Said Stories Courses Found Sleep Clear Missing Changed Drug Details One Man Links Drs Cabinets Jekyll

Book:The complete short stories

Source: The complete short stories

“I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.”

Found Creativity Balance Constancy Normality

Author:Julian Lennon

“I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.”

Knows Years Stills Together Found Years Ago Vices Quitting Nine Smoke Smoking Pregnant Chips Potatoes I Quit Nine Years Quit Smoking Were Pregnant Potato Chips Chardonnay

Author:Jean Smart

“In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.”

Years States Found Stars President Rooms Trouble Rocks Grew Grew Up Vices Sentences Defense Secretary Rock Star Vice President Completing

Author:Joe Scarborough

“It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.”

Men Writing Firsts Young Girl Found Sex Difficult Events Scene Horse Satisfied Get Up Attractive Young Man Playwright

Author:Peter Shaffer

“I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.”

Years Found Responsibility Cutting Authority Years Ago Defense Budgets Secretary Taking Responsibility Adequate

Author:Stuart Symington

“At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.”

People Trying Stories Found Interesting Audience Groups News All Things Mtv

Author:Tabitha Soren

“The worship of the golden calf of old (cf. Ex 32:15-34) has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal.”

Humans Found Goal Economy Worship Golden Dictatorship Lacking Cult Heartless Calves Faceless

Author:Pope Francis

“So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.”

Way Kind Stories Found Havens

Author:Todd Solondz

“I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.”

Years Kids Found Acting Angry Teenager Fifteen Fifteen Years Fifteen Years Old

Author:Tom Sizemore

“I've found in my life that the parts that you're right for are the parts that you get. It's really usually quite easy because you're kind of right.”

Kind Found Easy

Author:Anna Torv

“I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.”

People Knows Found Lucky Decathlon

Author:Daley Thompson

“The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the game, but because they smell money.”

People Reason Found Games Left Football Smell Glad Wrong Reasons

Author:Graham Taylor

“And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.”

School Found

Author:Mel Tillis

“When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.”

Firsts Moments Facts Found Share Tears My Family That Moment Idols Cried

Author:Pia Toscano

“My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.”

Years Three Found Father Left Week Affair Pregnant Mum Were Pregnant

Author:Carol Vorderman

“After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad.”

Littles Book Done Mother Found Son Proud Died Mother Died

Author:Conrad Veidt

“I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.”

Found Excited

Author:Emily VanCamp

“I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.”

Writing Found My Own Powerful Sitting Praise Tables Finished Coffee Over It Justification Twins Weeping Colony Puzzling Coetzee

Author:Amy Waldman

“Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.”

Years Said Two Stories Shows Next Found White Television Years Ago Two Years Next Day Television Shows Two Years Ago

Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber

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