Dave Barry Quotes
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
Damon Galgut -
I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
Laura Marling -
If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.
Dan Brown -
J. J. Abrams is amazing.
Oscar Isaac -
I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.
Sam Claflin -
It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
Harbhajan Singh
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Man is an eternal sophomore.
Wallace Stevens -
African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.
Matthew Desmond -
Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.
Don Baylor -
The idea was to have something wearable that fit with my reality, which was being a mom with two young kids and not always wanting to wear jeans. I still wanted to wear interesting clothes, and the options out there I found were either very expensive or very cheap. There was a big gap in the middle.
Maria Cornejo -
This is going to sound terrible, but once I moved to New York, I never did a civilian job. I was extraordinarily lucky.
Jean Smart -
'Deadwood' was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything I've ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.
Jim Beaver
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The sun shines everywhere, not just at the beach.
Brande Roderick -
The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.
Pia Zadora -
Am I eating chicken or tuna?
Jessica Simpson -
Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mistake if we say, as some do, that women should play by different rules, or that they are somehow especially vulnerable to the rules of politics. I don't think that's true.
Ellen Malcolm -
Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
Janet Frame -
I'm really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can't go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I'm totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.
Vanessa Hudgens
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When Reg died and we first looked into getting a new dog, I was adamant we should pick up a mongrel from an animal-rescue shelter. It's not only that they're usually healthier and have better temperaments, they also fit with my world view - I prefer a ballpoint to a fountain pen, a barber to a hair stylist, and camping over glamping.
Mark Barrowcliffe -
Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I'm close to now. But I wouldn't change them - or their pasts - for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today.
Derek Blasberg -
No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Dave Barry