K. A. Applegate Quotes
I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings.K. A. Applegate
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My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
Carine Roitfeld -
It takes three to make a child.
e. e. cummings -
Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
Jack Schwartz -
Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
M. Night Shyamalan -
When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.
Jack Canfield
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
H. P. Lovecraft -
The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
Orison Swett Marden -
A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
Mallory Ortberg -
I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It's fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that.
Mackenzie Davis -
But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
Fiona Apple -
We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
Jack Dangermond
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
Jackson Browne -
I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.
Rachel Sklar -
I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
W. G. Sebald -
My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
Mae Whitman -
Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.
Utah Phillips -
My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.
Queen Latifah
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Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
Rand Paul -
I'm a mixed breed and hope to live longer because of it.
Charisma Carpenter -
The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.
Jack Reed -
I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I manage to hide in my movies.
Liev Schreiber -
I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings.
K. A. Applegate