Dani Shapiro Quotes
I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.Dani Shapiro
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
A. E. van Vogt -
Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
Nancy Friday -
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
Saint Bernard -
Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
Kate Brown -
I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
Patrick McHenry -
I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
Rachel Shelley
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
Ram Kapoor -
I am a citizen of the world.
Abbas Kiarostami -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
Ian K. Smith -
I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
Olivia Thirlby
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.
Nanette Lepore -
In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
Floyd Skloot -
Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
Barbara Jordan -
I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
Gattlin Griffith -
I definitely like wearing leotards.
Maddie Ziegler
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In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau -
I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.
Jeff Lindsay -
We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
Tamae Watanabe -
For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
Dani Shapiro