Dorothy Allison Quotes
I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.Dorothy Allison
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
Walter Cronkite -
My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
Sally Kirkland -
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
Oscar Hijuelos -
I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
Adam Hasner -
I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
Gary Sinise -
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
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie -
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso -
Insults are the business of the court.
Naguib Mahfouz -
I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.
Karan Johar -
Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
Orison Swett Marden -
These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
Valerie Trierweiler
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth.
Raghuram Rajan -
My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
Gayle Forman -
I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.
Rachel Hunter -
The two candidates have very different visions of America. Donald Trump's is very dark: Things are not going well. There are dark days ahead unless you make a change, and he's the one to fix it.
Dana Perino
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Creating a flexible working culture is about trust. How much can your employees rely on each other to get the job done without the benefit of supervision?
Jean-Philippe Courtois -
The American People will come first once again. My plan will begin with safety at home - which means safe neighborhoods, secure borders, and protection from terrorism. There can be no prosperity without law and order.
Donald Trump -
It's funny: I always, as a high school teacher and particularly as a high school yearbook teacher, because yearbook staffs are 90 percent female, I got to sit in and overhear teenage girl talk for many years. I like teenage girls; I like their drama, their foibles. And I think, 'I'll be good with a teenage daughter!'
Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty -
Those vices luxury and neglect of decent manners are vices of men, not of the times.
Seneca the Younger -
I want to see abstract art move. Especially in the '30s, you had animators doing innovative work, and I was entranced by that. It's basically what you see when you close your eyes, when you fall asleep.
Michel Gondry -
I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.
Dorothy Allison