Jamaica Kincaid Quotes
Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.Jamaica Kincaid
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For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
Imelda Staunton -
Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
T. B. Joshua -
I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
Laura Robson -
I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
Hanya Yanagihara -
In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
Olivia Wilde
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
Taron Egerton -
I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
Action Bronson -
Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
Ralph Merkle -
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Oprah Winfrey -
Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
Patrick Collison
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
Ian McShane -
You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
Ornette Coleman -
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.
Young Jeezy -
It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
Natalia Vodianova -
The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
Taylor Lautner
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A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God.
Martin Luther -
In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of.
James Carl Inkanish, Jr. -
When I started, I decided to devote my life to it and not get sidetracked by all the other bullshit life has to offer.
Cliff Burton Metallica -
I've realized that I owe people a look behind the scenes of my own story, because I don't think anyone can have a true understanding of the music without an insight into where it came from.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
Ian Anderson -
Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.
Jamaica Kincaid