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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When studios start telling me why a particular film project won't work, I remember 'Rocky.' I remember that the biggest success Bob Chartoff and I have had was a film nobody wanted to make.
Irwin Winkler -
Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.
Nick van de Wall -
We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching.
Lloyd Bridges -
Sometimes you shoot for 40 or 50 hours for a one-hour show, and you have to make some very hard choices.
Louis Theroux -
Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time.
Wayne Rooney -
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
Phyllis McGinley