Phyllis McGinley Quotes
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
Manolo Blahnik -
My daughter passed away in 2003.
Daniel Cormier -
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Samuel Beckett -
MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
Karlie Kloss -
Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
Sam Phillips
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
Omar N. Bradley -
You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
Florence Ellinwood Allen -
There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
Beck -
There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
Pat Conroy -
It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
Rachel Weisz -
I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
Imogen Poots
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
Barry Eisler -
Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
Ragnar Frisch -
Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.
M. J. Rose -
I know how demanding the process of creation is.
Karen Kain -
My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
Zach Roerig -
I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
Tavi Gevinson
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There is something fundamentally fascinating about the mechanics, I guess, of the human body and where consciousness and mind exist, and what you can do with the mechanics of the body while keeping those intact, and where those two cross over.
Neill Blomkamp -
I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.
Frank McCourt -
When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
Patricia Schroeder -
The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.
John Kasich -
At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife s hatred, they are borne each of them apart.
Empedocles -
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
Phyllis McGinley