Poppy Z. Brite Quotes

I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.

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• I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Control

• I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Care

• Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Men
  • Value

• I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • Book
  • Amazing

• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Culture
  • Drama
  • Painting

• Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • You
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• The ADA is essential in helping me overcome the obstacles I face as a Wounded Warrior and empowers me to assist other veterans. It allows me to be physically active, have my pilot's license, and serve in Congress.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Helping
  • Obstacles
  • Warrior

• To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • See
  • Need
  • Company

• I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Music
  • Career

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Feel
  • Nurse
  • Secretary

• Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Lucky
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  • Fortunate

• I'm a historian in my own mind.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Mind
  • Own
  • My Own

• I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Real

• Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Human
  • Chaos

• Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

  

  Lech Walesa
  • Fall
  • Silence

• The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Animal
  • Beauty
  • Virtue

• A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

  

  Alison Jackson
  • People
  • Thinking

• Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break down in categories: directors who like to be surprised and some of them abhor being surprised. As far as directing, we all direct when we're acting in movies... every single one of us.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • People
  • Acting
  • Movies

• My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life's unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn't always come easily, but I also know it's her greatest gift.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.

  

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