Elizabeth Marvel Quotes

I'm not familiar with an unaccepting family. But in my profession, nothing can be foreign.

Elizabeth Marvel

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• I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Listen
  • Watch

• I think my numbers speak for themselves.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Numbers

• I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Fun
  • Blessed
  • Faces

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Different
  • History
  • Alone

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Building
  • Supporter
  • PETA

• In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Training
  • Boys
  • Manual

• Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Game

• For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • World
  • Women
  • Attitude

• All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Women
  • Business
  • Just

• A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Past
  • Experiences
  • Pull

• Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Fun
  • Easy

• I'm not super into sports.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Sports
  • Super

• People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Weak

• In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Career
  • House
  • Health

• Yes, I would loved to have just sustained myself through my art, but less than one in a billion musicians gets that life. So rather than being like, 'I'm an exception!', like a moron, I thought I'd get a real job.

  

  Mary Lambert
  • Life
  • Real
  • Art

• What I miss most about Mexico isn't the food or the customs; it's my family and the way we'd all sit around chatting together.

  

  Javier Hernandez
  • Family
  • Together
  • Food

• You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Know

• We didn't have all the distractions that young people have today. We didn't have these incredible computer games and social networks to engage with. I understand that. But once young readers do discover reading, when they discover a book which they fall in love with, it really unleashes something new in their imagination.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • People
  • Book
  • Today

• I'm not familiar with an unaccepting family. But in my profession, nothing can be foreign.

  

  Elizabeth Marvel
  • Family