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I love Frida Kahlo.

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• At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.

  

  Val Guest
  • You
  • Comedy
  • Thought

• The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Music
  • Live
  • Listening

• The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Chance

• I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Mean
  • Dirt
  • Umpire

• I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Future
  • Me
  • Star

• Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • People
  • Mind
  • Fear

• I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Work
  • Think
  • Sacrifice

• Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Dream
  • Problem

• I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Culture

• I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Stories
  • Tell
  • Express

• It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • You
  • Challenge

• These days I sit on cornerstonesAnd count the time in quarter-tones to ten, my friendDon't confront me with my failuresI had not forgotten them.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Time

• What it talks about is stuff that I've gone through, like, in the past year, which is, you know, a lot, and some of it's good, and some of it's bad, and a lot of it's, like, a big learning experience. And I got to write a lot about that with people that I've worked with before, so I felt completely comfortable.

  

  Hilary Duff
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

• In my own prejudice ... I would have of a poet ... whose worlds would not be too esoteric ... fond of talking ... capable of pity and laughter ... appreciative of women ... involved in personal relationships ... susceptible to physical impressions...

  

  Louis MacNeice
  • Women
  • Laughter

• I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I'd fail at all these different professions.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Different
  • Art

• In 'The Darkest Minds,' Zu's trauma manifests in her choosing to remain silent. It's her one small way she can feel in control of her otherwise uncontrollable situation.

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • She
  • Small
  • Control

• Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Writing
  • Drawing

• Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now life is going to be nothing but love and laughter, and corn in cans. I cannot brood over broken hearts, mine is too recently mended.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Girl

• A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Suffering
  • Fire
  • Littles

• ...is a hollow gesture, because we don't want words. We want actions.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Words
  • Actions
  • Gesture

• Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive; having no opposite, there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. The all illuminating light shines and is beyond the movement of the opposites.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Light

• I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.

  

  David Hyde Pierce
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• I love Frida Kahlo.

  

  Paz de la Huerta