Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes
I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.Bobbie Ann Mason
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I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
Umberto Eco -
Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
Abbi Jacobson -
Talk about your problems. There's no need to feel shy. It's always good to talk about issues that concern you.
Orlando Bloom -
If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
Larry Gelbart -
In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
Karl Rove
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
Abbi Jacobson -
The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
Barry Levinson -
Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
Maeve Binchy -
I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.
Taylor Swift -
There's no question that looking down to search the Web, send a text message, or log onto Facebook puts you in danger and puts people around you on the road in danger.
Ted Deutch -
To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
Umberto Eco
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Gay marriage passed in New York because four Republican legislators crossed party lines. They did it in part because they had true bipartisan financial support.
Brown Campbell -
The individual under this kind of life, with no rights, has absolutely no power in this land. How can they even ask you for creativity? Or imagination, or courage or passion?
Ai Weiwei -
I didn't want to get into a political debate with him, but my patience was running thin...My shorts were getting a little tight.
Arlen Specter -
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
Pearl Bailey -
Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract it.
Bryce Dessner The National -
The FSB's invisible presence continued; the agency became an intangible part of my Moscow life - sometimes loudly, sometimes quietly, with someone in a back room clearly turning the volume of minor persecution up and down.
Luke Harding
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I have the greatest respect for Mr. Rishi Kapoor - he's simply amazing and also Sridevi. I personally think that is what acting IS about! If you have tapped into your talent, you should be trained enough to access it easily!
Kajol -
My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
Adam Garcia -
Young people can accomplish a lot.
Kathleen Rubins -
I believe the Republican Party is the party of the open door. Our party is the party of opportunity and freedom and equality, and it always will remain such.
Reince Priebus -
But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there's corrections you have to make.
Jerry Bruckheimer -
I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.
Bobbie Ann Mason