Lumalaki Ang Quotes & Sayings

I see L.A. as a workplace rather than somewhere to live. If I don't get out, I go crazy. If you have a little success, people treat you differently, so it's good to keep a healthy perspective. It's acting, not rocket science. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw

The most successful people are so original. — Idina Menzel

As a footnote to the above, I would like to say that I am getting very tired of literary authorities, on both the stage and the screen, who advise young writers to deal only with those subjects that happen to be familiar to them personally. It is quite true that this theory probably produced "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," but the chances are it would have ruled out "Hamlet. — Wolcott Gibbs

Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are. — Robert Caro

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me. — Enrique Iglesias

The Gethenians do not see one another as men or women. This is almost impossible for our imaginations to accept. After all, what is the first question we ask about a newborn baby? ... there is no division of humanity into strong and weak halves, protected/ protective. One is respected and judged only as a human being. You cannot cast a Gethnian in the role of Man or Woman, while adopting towards 'him' a corresponding role dependant on your expetations of the interactions between persons of the same or oppositve sex. It is an appalling experience for a Terran — Ursula K. Le Guin

Sorry - Americans only buy things that come from suffering. They just enjoy it more when they know someone's getting hurt. — Louis C.K.

Fashion is always uncomfortable. When you get comfortable, you never get the look. — An Na

When all seems hopeless, cross your fingers and stick with the secular prayer. — Brian Spellman

I'm in search of myself - have you seen me anywhere? — Ashleigh Brilliant

Sheep ain't poetical. — Patrick O'Brian

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness. — Diane Frolov

Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way.
Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our current situation? Because our current situation may not be critiqued. We have not only lost the right to criticise, but the courage to do so.
Why is modern China lacking in great writers? Because all the great writers are castrated while still in the nursery. — Murong Xuecun

She had never imagined that the kiss would be so brief and desperate and wild. Or that it would taste of holy water. Holy water and blood. — Cassandra Clare