Brenda Ueland Quotes
Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
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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.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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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.
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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.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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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.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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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.
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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.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
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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.
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The hardest part for me is to finish a track. I start new projects all the time.
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A sense of humor is important. I'm always attracted to a girl with confidence. In terms of looks, I don't have a type.
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They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.
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Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.
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Now you say you have to absolutely truthful. Sincerity is the main thing, and truthfulness is the main thing and don't lie to anybody ... and you'll get ahead. Brother you sure will. You'll get ahead right on that cycle of action, right toward zero! It's a trap not being able to prevaricate ... This makes life more colorful!
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Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
