Mary Pope Osborne Quotes
Sometimes when I go out on the road, I feel almost embarrassed or dismayed because I can't be the image of what kids want me to be. So I just try to be myself, and usually that works out OK.Mary Pope Osborne
Quotes to Explore
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
Patrick Rothfuss -
It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
Natalie Merchant -
Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
Yoko Ono -
Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
Rachel Kushner -
Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
Sam Graves -
Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
Malorie Blackman
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams -
If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
Kacey Musgraves -
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
Lady Gaga -
The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
Mallory Ortberg -
My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
Jack Dangermond
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
R. L. Stine -
Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.
Taylor Dane -
I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.
Kate Clinton -
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot -
But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
Uma Thurman -
It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I genuinely, really, thoroughly enjoyed the whole morning there. I just liked the quietness and stillness of what is basically a cruel prison complex. I still found some kind of joy in that. That's how I am.
John Joseph Lydon -
My dad was a street kid for seven years - he was homeless.
Kelly Marie Tran -
So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.
Keren Ann -
They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL, but college football, high school football and all football.
John Madden -
...I have this scar on my hand (points to shoulder). I see a lot of these guys who come with scars on their hands. It’s ridiculous. With me it was an accident. These kids do it on purpose. You can’t prove by doing such things that you are the biggest fan there is. I am myself thinking about getting a plastic surgery done to remove this. I also get a lot of people writing to me with their blood. I have stopped replying to those mails altogether.
Salman Khan -
Sometimes when I go out on the road, I feel almost embarrassed or dismayed because I can't be the image of what kids want me to be. So I just try to be myself, and usually that works out OK.
Mary Pope Osborne