Deirdre Lovejoy Quotes
I am a big Vespa enthusiast, and I enjoy the state park aspect of California. It's awfully nice to ride my little scooter through the mountains and then wind up at the ocean.
Quotes to Explore
-
You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
-
I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
-
We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
-
I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
-
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
-
I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
-
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
-
I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
-
It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
-
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
-
If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
-
Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
-
Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
-
As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
-
I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
-
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
-
Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
-
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
-
I first fell in love with comedy when I'd visit my granny as a kid. Trips to her house meant staying up late drinking Coca-Cola and watching 'Saturday Night Live'.
-
To me, a lot people really get wrapped up in the technical side of metal and what's metal and what's not and more double-kick and more blast beats and more technicality, but for me, I'm a song person. So I think you can write good songs in any type of style of rock and any type of style of metal, and that's kind of what I'm a fan of.
-
These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
-
I see 'Eligible' as a homage, and I see 'Pride and Prejudice' as a perfect book. You can dispute whether this project is a good idea, but you can't dispute my fondness for the novel.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
I'm not a great Maureen Dowd fan, because I really find her poisonous, on the record.
-
I am a big Vespa enthusiast, and I enjoy the state park aspect of California. It's awfully nice to ride my little scooter through the mountains and then wind up at the ocean.
