Mark Steyn Quotes
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
Carine Roitfeld -
When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
Nancy O'Dell -
When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
Karin Slaughter -
My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
Maggie Q -
Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
Ed Westwick -
I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
Kat Graham
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
Gary Jennings -
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor -
It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
Laura Mvula -
In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
Sam Hunt -
Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
Larry David -
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
Karen Thompson Walker
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
Verne Troyer -
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
Jack Horner -
No one person is an island.
Yehuda Berg -
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
Eckhart Tolle -
A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
Jack Dorsey -
I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.
Action Bronson
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'The Man Who Loved Children,' Christina Stead's masterpiece, remains the most fabulous book that hardly anyone I know has read.
Jonathan Franzen -
Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
Adam Brody -
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
Salman Rushdie -
To get our economy back on track and keep it functioning properly without the problems of our financial institutions, we need reasonable regulations that will protect Main Street while at the same time allow Wall Street to do what it does best - make money for American investors.
Marsha Blackburn -
I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world.
Bob Shacochis -
Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture
Mark Steyn