Brenda Ueland Quotes
Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.Brenda Ueland
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
Zadie Smith -
You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
Camila Alves -
When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
Larry MacPhail -
Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
Nat Wolff -
Winners do what losers don't want to do.
Gary Busey -
I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
Natalie Massenet
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
Halima Aden -
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
Ovid -
There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
Abraham Verghese -
People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
Karen Carpenter The Carpenters -
My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
Hailee Steinfeld
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
J. M. Coetzee -
I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
Manuel Puig -
Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.
Latrell Sprewell -
Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
LaToya Jackson -
It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.
Kate Millett -
Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.
Achille Maramotti
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Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.
David Sutcliffe -
I am going to be doing some practicing on Thursday and Friday and we run some qualifying heats on Saturday, ... I've wanted to do this for a while. I wanted to have a good car when we did it. I think we've got a good car.
Dick Trickle -
When that hit the fan ... it was like an earthquake.
Bill Ballance -
Life's for the living, so live it, or you're better off dead.
Passenger -
Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
Brenda Ueland