Dorothy Allison Quotes
My sisters, we didn't like each other as kids. We were scared of each other, I think, but we've grown to love each other. It was fun to write about these sisters who were supposed to hate each other but really don't.Dorothy Allison
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
Zainab Salbi -
I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
Hamish Bowles -
I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
Karan Johar -
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian -
I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
Halsey -
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
Dale Turner
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
Valerie Harper -
I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
Nadia Comaneci -
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
Sam Kean -
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
Samuel Butler -
Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
Natalia Makarova
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
Saint Ambrose -
I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
J. R. Smith -
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
Queen Elizabeth II -
I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
Isaac Asimov -
'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.
Rami Malek -
Enjoy every sandwich.
Warren Zevon
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I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun.
Kathy Griffin -
If only she could have held on to that day, held on to that moment forever, grasped it in her fists so it wouldn't escape. If only.
Patricia Reilly Giff -
The thing about the wacky fans is that they're really sweet.
Margot Kidder -
I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
Markus Zusak -
Laughter is no enemy to learning.
Walt Disney -
My sisters, we didn't like each other as kids. We were scared of each other, I think, but we've grown to love each other. It was fun to write about these sisters who were supposed to hate each other but really don't.
Dorothy Allison