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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Mark Twain

Book, Read, Praise

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
Kurt Cobain

Good, Divorce, Until

When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.
Tom Hiddleston

Themselves, Actually, Bully

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
Abraham Maslow

Love, Human, Reality

I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
Ted Nugent

Life, Attitude, Rock

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
Salvador Dali

Try, Works, Necessary

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.
Denzel Washington

Faith, Struggle

I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.
Steve Martin

Writing, Hard, Fire

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.
Helena Bonham Carter

Dark, Scary, Fairy

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.
William Shatner

Reading, Enjoyed, Isaac

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.
Tori Amos

Husband, Nobody, Green

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Book, Again, Written

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Science, Read, Literature

I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.
Drew Barrymore

Love, Food, Remember

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.
Daniel Radcliffe

Society, Find, Word

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.
Tori Amos

Love, Mother, She

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.
Steve Nash

Through, Pretty, Adversity

Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.
Marilyn vos Savant

Two, Learn, Latin

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
Camille Paglia

Art, Boring, Why

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
Catherine Deneuve

Romantic, Normal, Cinema

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
Alexander McQueen

Together, Fashion, Personal

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.
Keanu Reeves

Funny, Mind, Pretty

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
Ang Lee

Strong, Character, Book

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
John Podhoretz

Power, Rule, Opposition

If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.
Emma Watson

Wrong, Stuff, Forever

I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on 'Mariachi.'
Ani DiFranco

Beautiful, Old, Played

Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic disaster movie.
Diablo Cody

Successful, Film, Actually

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.
Francis Ford Coppola

Job, Christian, Tell

I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do.
LL Cool J

School, Trying, Old

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.
John Cusack

Great, Movies, Dad

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