Djuna Barnes Quotes
After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.Djuna Barnes
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
Zoe Kazan -
The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
Samuel L. Jackson -
I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
Laura Hillenbrand -
If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
Naveen Jain -
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
M. C. Escher -
My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.
Venus Williams
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
Odell Beckham, Jr. -
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Quintilian -
I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
Jack Dee -
To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.
R. Kelly -
Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.
Yitzhak Shamir -
All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
Faith Prince
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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
Nancy Sinatra -
I can memorise lines quickly. Knowing Telugu now has helped improve my performance.
Rakul Preet Singh -
I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats.
Gary Sheffield -
People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
Rachel Zoe -
The big challenge is looking ripped and lean without being too big because on camera, it's easy to appear thick.
Parker Young -
I keep returning to the combination of artichoke, broad beans and lemon. The freshness of young beans and the lemon juice 'lifts' the artichoke and balances its hearty nature.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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It's interesting because when you're in a show for a year, your life really isn't your own for that whole period.
James Snyder -
A stranger's rose is but a thorn.
I. L. Peretz -
When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
Fatima Sana Shaikh -
Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as a merely illusory asset. As we trace more accurately certain familiar sequences of phenomena we begin to realize how closely these sequences, or laws , as we call them, are hemmed round by still other laws of which we can form no notion. With myself this writing off of illusory assets has gone rather far and the cobweb of supposed knowledge has been pinched (as some one has phrased) into a particularly small pill.
William Crookes -
After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.
Djuna Barnes