James McBride Quotes
Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.James McBride
Quotes to Explore
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If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.
Olivier Theyskens -
When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.
Sadie Jones -
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Quentin Crisp -
It doesn't matter how old you are or what you do with your life, you will never stop needing your mum. And I will never stop needing mine, so thanks, Mum.
Kate Winslet -
I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully.
Utah Phillips -
I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.
Laura Wasser
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Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.
Sam Kean -
I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.
Daniel Bryan -
Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
I have high hopes that GIS will become increasingly relevant for landscape architects as we make the tools easier to use for the design process of just inventory and mapping.
Jack Dangermond -
Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.
R. A. Salvatore -
I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.
Oscar Peterson
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Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get that critical of a government that's leading us in war time.
Walter Isaacson -
Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Saigon is like all the other great modern cities of the world. It's the mess left from people getting rich.
P. J. O'Rourke -
As a CEO, I am finding that I have to become a learning CEO. I have to go to school all the time because I am learning new skills that I need to run this company and I am realising that I am not equipped to just coast, I have to constantly renew my skills.
Indra Nooyi -
The ocean twitched like a vast cloth spread over snakes.
Annie Proulx -
The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.
C. L. R. James
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If you read the Freedom Charter carefully, you will find that - the clause that refers to education, and it says education must be free 'on merit.'
Cyril Ramaphosa -
'Clybourne Park' was my first job after the birth of my son, who was 11 weeks old when we started rehearsals. And while that was truly harder than anything I've ever done, I was grateful every day to be going to work on such an incredible play, with such a generous, intelligent, supportive group of people.
Annie Parisse -
I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways, and we lived through some pretty tough times losing my mom. When I see all that he did, I think, 'Wow, that's a really wonderful man.'
Emmanuelle Chriqui -
Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.
Vayalar Ravi -
Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.
James McBride