Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes

Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

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• I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Guitar

• I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • She
  • Small
  • Dad

• When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Help
  • Fun
  • Gift

• Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Long
  • Personality
  • Pet

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Important
  • Sleep
  • Changes

• 'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Pretty
  • Forever
  • Now

• Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Together
  • Happy

• My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Hate

• I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • College
  • Football
  • Religion

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

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Work
  • Garden
  • Apple

• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Thought
  • Devil
  • Witch

• Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Past
  • Always
  • Now

• Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Leather

• With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fall

• I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Popular
  • Writer

• 'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • War
  • Sex
  • Objector

• We like to make the Marvel comics films because they're fun. Families can go see them together. They're entertaining. They aspire to inspire, and that is cool.

  

  Djimon Hounsou
  • Together
  • Fun
  • Cool

• I was on Batman with "Superheavy" or "Zero Year" where there was a lot of fun and bombast, but it was also personal. In All-Star, I wanted to take that to its complete extreme, like the end of the Earth extreme, where it's over-the-top humorous, yet at the same time really deeply about what I think is of this particular moment in time, at least for me. The things I'm terrified of and the things I'm hopeful about. My life is the page.

  

  Scott Snyder
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Earth

• Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • She
  • Mom
  • Marriage

• Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

  

  Frederica Mathewes-Green
  • Fun
  • Christmas
  • Easter