Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Quotes

Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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• Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Life
  • Me
  • Emotional

• I like to give people more than their money's worth.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Money
  • Worth

• Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Always

• The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Great
  • Music
  • Better

• The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Long
  • Women
  • Struggle

• Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • May
  • Deep
  • Sad

• My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Father
  • Political
  • Woman

• I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Guy
  • Lie
  • Sure

• If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Long
  • Travel
  • Journey

• A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington... people who are different, who are larger than life.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Road
  • Perception

• Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Woman
  • Child
  • Treat

• Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • God
  • Different
  • Women

• Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • May

• C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Help
  • Simple

• I was 14. I went to see a production of 'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,' and when they got to that final song, 'If We Only Have Love,' it was like the top of my head had blown off.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Song
  • Paris

• Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Trying
  • Today
  • Game

• I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.

  

  Ana Gasteyer
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Friends

• Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

  

  Philip Guedalla
  • People
  • Truth

• I don't want anybody to take my kindness as a weakness. Like I said before, this is where I want to be, but don't test me. It never was a done deal. It was a possibility. I'm happy about that. But there's two sides to that. On one side, I trust you, but don't play me. I don't care who it is, if it's the Boss, if it's him, don't play me. There are plenty of other teams out there that want my services ... that's the bottom line.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Trust

• I'm ashamed to say that I'm from a very privileged background.

  

  David Lagercrantz

• I'm the Vampire Lestat. Remember me? The vampire who became a super rock star, the one who wrote the autobiography? The one with the blond hair and the blue eyes, and the insatiable desire for visibility and fame? You remember. first line

  

  Anne Rice
  • Remember
  • Desire
  • Eyes

• It seems like whenever a big newspaper or TV show talks about teen literature, they focus on dark books or vampire books. It's kind of this cliche. It seems like the only time adults pay attention is with that angle.

  

  Jay Asher
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Focus

• Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

  

  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  • Vampire