Vicki Baum Quotes

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

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• To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Respect
  • Relationship
  • Leaving

• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • You
  • Taken
  • Care

• Good design should be honest.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Good
  • Design
  • Honest

• It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Environment
  • Better

• We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Live
  • Mystery
  • Busy

• The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Women
  • Children
  • School

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Story
  • Cinderella

• I'm not nervous standing with anyone.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Nervous
  • Standing
  • Anyone

• When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Audience
  • Mirror

• What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • War
  • Reality
  • Freedom

• I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Knowledge
  • Years
  • Last

• For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Character
  • Together

• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Deep
  • Very
  • New Years

• And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Life
  • Children
  • Future

• No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • Change
  • Stand

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • Money
  • Business

• We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Family
  • Know
  • Laugh

• A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Balance
  • Difficult

• I felt that some horrible scene or object lurked beyond the silk-hung walls, and shrank from glancing through the arched, latticed windows that opened so bewilderingly on every hand.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Hand

• Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Words
  • Attention
  • Shine

• Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Society

• A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Contact