Maxine Hong Kingston Quotes
When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.Maxine Hong Kingston
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
Yves Chauvin -
The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
Karen McDougal -
Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
Edgar Wright -
My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
Jack Bowman -
The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.
Tawakkol Karman
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
Gary Gygax -
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
Vikas Swarup -
I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
Jack Ma -
An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
Ted Cruz
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
Owen Feltham -
You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
Vikram Seth -
GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.
Jack Dangermond -
You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
Jack O'Brien -
We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.
Kabir Bedi -
I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.
Sam Donaldson
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The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.
Joe Bob Briggs -
A U.S. Senator should have the same right as a member of the Knesset...to disagree with any government when its actions may not be in the United States' interest.
Charles H. Percy -
I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going.
Joanne Rowling -
Some people plan their life out, and it occurs. Others have things they're thinking about, and things don't go that way.
David Eigenberg -
Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.
Baltasar Gracian -
When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.
Maxine Hong Kingston