Darin Strauss Quotes
Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don't make for interesting protagonists.Darin Strauss
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Walter Benjamin -
I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
Yuvraj Singh -
I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
Danica McKellar -
We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.
Abigail Disney -
Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
Gary Herbert -
I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
C. C. H. Pounder
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
Yves Saint Laurent -
Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
Orison Swett Marden -
I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.
Foxy Brown -
When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.
Taylor Mali -
When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.
Ingmar Bergman -
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
Oriana Fallaci
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
Gary Ross -
They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
Padgett Powell -
I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.
Canelo Alvarez -
I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.
Adam Mansbach -
I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
H. Jon Benjamin
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When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.
Inbee Park -
Girls are almost always socialized to be perfect: 'Smile, do well in school, don't take too many risks.'
Kimberly Bryant -
Occasionally, we would shoot something and think, 'This is it; we are over the line.' But the test audiences didn't have a problem with it.
Jay Chandrasekhar -
I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years after I did were brought up all on the computers and that's how they do it, but I was still part of the older school.
John Roberts -
Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don't make for interesting protagonists.
Darin Strauss