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You get moments all the time that kind of make you pinch yourself, some of them make you quite emotional. Winning a BRIT was a big moment because we were just so excited to be at the awards in the first place. Selling out Madison Square Garden was pretty amazing too. Then we woke to the news that our UK tour was sold out. It was crazy.
Harry Styles
Tags: Time Amazing You
I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.
Johnny Depp
Tags: Family Really Up
You do run and scream and cry and work yourself up into hysterics, and then you get back to the hotel at the end of the day, and you feel really off and really strange. And that's because rationally, even though you know everything is OK, you have put yourself through this traumatizing experience, and your body is still going.
Alexandra Daddario
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.


J. P. Morgan
Tags: You Things Enough
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. Wells
Script comes first, then the actors, then you gotta be lucky enough to get the right time slot. Then people have to watch.
James Burrows
Tags: Time You People
I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you're going to do.
Liev Schreiber
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Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.


Muhammad Ali
Tags: People First Ever
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
Wyndham Lewis
Tags: Peace Would World
You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.
Wayne Grady
Tags: You Want Only
You can always enhance your natural beauty; you learn what works for your face because crazy make-up doesn't really suit anyone.
Caroline Winberg
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If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio.


Mos Def
Tags: Get Life Then
I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.
Daniel Radcliffe
Tags: Good You Because
I first thought maybe I'd do a banjo presentation record, where I'd play a couple of songs and get a bunch of other players to do the rest. Then I realized I had enough of my own songs to do an album of them.
Steve Martin
Tags: Get Had Them
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Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.


David Bowie
Tags: You Really Want
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Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.


R. Lee Ermey
Tags: Me Just Up
What I really want to do is, first of all, get my music out to the world. And then I would really just like to reach other kids all over the world and tell them to believe in themselves and prove to people that you can do anything you want.
Neon Hitch
Tags: Music You People
You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.
Annie Parisse
Tags: You People Just
Correct meditation means correctly understanding your situation moment by moment - what are you doing now? Only do it! Then, each action is complete; each action is enough. Then no thinking, so each moment I can perceive everything just like this.
Seung Sahn
Tags: You Like Just
It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was asked to play a mum. I was easily old enough, but because I didn't have any children, I thought, 'That seems really grown-up.'
Natasha Little