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'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 -
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
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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 -
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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 -
I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper.
Samantha Bee
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I'm probably a bit of a cheeky grandson like my brother as well. We both tend to take the mickey a bit much.
Prince William -
I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a lot more fun than Robin Williams doing forty minutes of material.
Bruce McCulloch -
It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.
Flannery O'Connor -
My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.
Nathan Myhrvold -
If you've never been on anything before, they're not going to take a risk and give you a huge job 90 percent of the time. There are exceptions to that. I certainly wasn't an exception to that. I had to pay my dues big time, but I wish somebody would have explained, 'Look, your job is not to get work. Your job is to get better.'
Christine Woods -
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