Charles Henry Parkhurst Quotes
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
Manuel Puig -
All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
Tammy Baldwin -
My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
Manoj Bhargava -
Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
Patricia Velasquez -
From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
Garry Disher -
I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
Vikram Seth
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
Karen Armstrong -
Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
Venus Williams -
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
L. E. Modesitt -
I love trying new restaurants.
Dana Goodyear -
I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
Nargis Fakhri
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
Maddie Ziegler -
You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.
Maeve Binchy -
I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
Taylor Swift -
Marriage isn't always cupcakes and Jesus juice, but it's important to show each other your marriage is a priority and that you still love them.
Zoe Foster Blake -
You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.
Ed Skrein
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I've always had volume on my side: the big-voice-in-a-small-package thing. I surprise people.
Anna Kendrick -
There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too
Sharon Stone -
I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.
Donna Mills -
I have always believed that there is nothing greater than a life in rock n' roll - it has to be good rock n' roll - and I still think it is true.
Atul Gawande -
Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
Charles Henry Parkhurst