Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it.' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!Naomi Shihab Nye
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
Abigail Breslin -
I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
Eddie Izzard -
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
Basil Bunting -
I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
Kate Thompson -
I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
A. N. Wilson -
Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
Hampton Sides
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
Nadia Comaneci -
I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
Tamzin Merchant -
Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
Patrick deWitt -
I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
Oscar Taveras -
Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.
Kate Winslet
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
Viktor E. Frankl -
Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.
Damien Chazelle -
I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.
Cameron Diaz -
With twenty six letters, you can create anything you like - any person, any world, any place, any emotion. And they are so potent, so powerful, and at the same time, they're marks on the page, and that's all. There's nothing else to them.
Samantha Harvey -
Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.
Victoria Legrand Beach House -
I mean, I'm humble... to me, I'm just a regular cat from Oakland, California.
Lance Gross
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I think that every male actor fantasizes with a boxing film.
Edgar Ramirez -
Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.
Dan Abrams -
I couldn't think or eat nothin' unless it was Hank Williams, and I couldn't wait for his next record to come out. He had to be, really, the greatest.
George Jones Mr. President (band) -
Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it.' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!
Naomi Shihab Nye