Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes
I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.Bobbie Ann Mason
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
Fleur East -
I've actually done a lot of comedy.
Natalie Zea -
For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
Gary Sinise
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Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
Tavi Gevinson -
When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
J. M. G. Le Clezio -
I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
Edgardo Osorio -
There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
Eddie Izzard -
Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
Damian Woetzel -
Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
Nastassja Kinski
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
Samuel Butler -
The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
Rachel Dratch -
Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.
Adam McKay -
Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.
Karen Salmansohn -
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln
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After all these years, I've done well and I'm cool. I feel comfortable in my skin, I've saved some paper, everybody's healthy, my kids are beautiful and smart, doing different things, it's all good.
Eddie Murphy -
But woe awaits a country whenShe sees the tears of bearded men.
Walter Scott -
I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.
Kristy Swanson -
I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.
Steve Cropper Booker T. & the M.G.'s -
There are people in this country who have waited for decades for affordable health coverage for themselves and their families.
Kathleen Sebelius -
I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.
Bobbie Ann Mason