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"I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight."
"I don't want to give the illusion that one day God came down and I was healed."
"You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs."
"One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record."
"I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'."
"I definitely want to study film. I'd like to have my own studio one day and just make a lot of movies."
"Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next."
"Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, 'Oh yes, I'm hosting my own show.'"
"The President has so much good publicity potential that hasn't been exploited. He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn't be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television."
"One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply."
"I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again."
"You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you."
"We lit the stove a few days ago and the entire room is filled with smoke. I prefer central heating, and I'm probably not the only one."
"On second marriage: It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we totally changed. I think one day we had just nothing in common. And it's scary but I think it can happen when you get involved and you don't know yourself yet."
"When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director."
"He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with eager longing. Love was like a parasite in his heart, nourishing a hateful existence on his life's blood; it absorbed his existence so intensely that he could take pleasure in nothing else."
"I always invest in companies an idiot could run, because one day one will."
"Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the elder and more terrible."
"Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!"
"One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!"
