Brenda Holloway Quotes
A lot of times I can across as too masculine to men, and they couldn't handle me, they stayed away.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.
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I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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We want to free our citizens from the burden of excessive paper documents in every office. We want paperless transactions. We will set up a digital locker for every citizen to store personal documents that can be shared across departments.
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'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
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Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
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Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.
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I don't like narrowing my readers down - there's not a particular age or gender or nationality. I suppose I'm aiming at the child I was.
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I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
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That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.
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A lot of times I can across as too masculine to men, and they couldn't handle me, they stayed away.
