Elizabeth Hand Quotes

I love the notion of there being a single group of Apollonian watchdogs down through the aeons, keeping the world safe from the malign (and far more fun-loving) forces of Dionysos.

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• I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Up
  • College
  • New

• I would love to be a role model.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Model
  • Role Model

• It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • Two

• Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Interesting
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Life
  • Women
  • Peace

• I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

  

  Taylor Cole
  • World
  • Good
  • Travel

• Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

  

  Larry Brown
  • School
  • Kids
  • Worship

• I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Drug
  • Addiction
  • Video Games

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Work
  • Independence

• When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Clothes
  • Uncomfortable

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Long
  • Think

• I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Human
  • Turn

• In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Food
  • California
  • Vote

• Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Long
  • Money
  • Short

• If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • People
  • Work
  • Pretty

• Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Different
  • Career

• Most people don't know this, but I never wanted Man Repeller to be about me. It was titled that to identify a genre of women.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • People
  • Women

• Mary Hart says she meant to stay on 'Entertainment Tonight' for three years. She was on for 29.

  

  Drew Lachey
  • She

• Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

  

  Keith Miller
  • Book
  • Church
  • Army

• No doors were locked, few shut. There were no disguises and no advertisements. It was all there, all the work, all the life of the city, open to the eye and to the hand.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Work
  • City

• I love the notion of there being a single group of Apollonian watchdogs down through the aeons, keeping the world safe from the malign (and far more fun-loving) forces of Dionysos.

  

  Elizabeth Hand
  • World
  • Fun
  • Single