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I need to know who the audience are in any particular play. It's no good forgetting that they're there. — Donald Sinden Copy Share Image
My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I… — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
I think the real problem is it's easy to persuade young kids of particular kinds of ideas, because they are flexible. — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
[On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male… — Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks Copy Share Image
It might sound trite, but happiness is a decision not a destination, and my choices now are all based on whether not… — Suw Charman-Anderson Copy Share Image
Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The people I admire most hadn't really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
more each particular person is(my love) alive than every world can understand and now you are and i am now and we're… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular. — Leos Carax Copy Share Image
There is a democratic deficit. In Latin America in particular there is real concern that democratic governments are not delivering and that… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The story in that particular spot was an ancient history story, and we wanted to give it a historical feeling, which was… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
I'm very particular about the pizza that I eat. Godfather's is still a premium-quality product, and I cannot always find that. It's… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular… — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is… — Polybius Copy Share Image
I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
It's different now but I enjoy it more than I did then. I think I appreciate it more now and I love… — Chris Hillman Copy Share Image
In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building. — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
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I'm very open with people, very warm, when I meet them. My fans in particular find that strange and refreshing. — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and… — Will McDonough Copy Share Image
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The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The government could either raise $100 by selling allowances and then give that amount in cash to particular businesses and individuals, or… — Peter R. Orszag Copy Share Image
This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
There wasn't any particular player I modeled my game after. I tried to learn from everyone and create my own style. I… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
There's been a 40-year effort on the far right to build up think tanks, academic programs, advocacy groups, to push a particular… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image