M. John Harrison Quotes
She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill her own people with a ferocity that betrayed real grief. But she was someone, he had decided early, who struggled harder with life than she needed to: this he respected, even admired.M. John Harrison
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
Samuel Butler -
In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
Barry Humphries -
During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
Rachel McAdams -
Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
Zig Ziglar -
My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
Aaron Sanchez
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
Kate Bush -
One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.
Kate Klise -
The muses visit when I'm lonely.
Taylor Hicks -
No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
Earl Weaver -
It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
Karrie Webb -
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
M.I.A. -
It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
Dana Hussein -
I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
Laura Wade -
We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
Quavo Migos -
Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, for those who do not respond to alternative forms of interventions.
Irving Kirsch -
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
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I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.
Peter Jurasik -
Twitter has restored my faith in humanity. I thought I'd hate it, but while there are lots of knobheads, there are even more lovely people. It delights me how witty and friendly most people are.
John Simm -
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde -
I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know what will be the end.
Michel Foucault -
Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.
Gary Paulsen -
She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill her own people with a ferocity that betrayed real grief. But she was someone, he had decided early, who struggled harder with life than she needed to: this he respected, even admired.
M. John Harrison