Jane Smiley Quotes
In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.Jane Smiley
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
Gary Coleman -
I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
Gayle Forman -
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
Camille Paglia -
It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
K. D. Lang -
I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
Qandeel Baloch -
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
J. M. Roberts
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
Vanna Bonta -
I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
Floyd Abrams -
I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
Camilla Belle -
Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
Mae Whitman -
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
Naguib Mahfouz -
What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
Barbara Mandrell
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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
Baron d'Holbach -
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
J. P. Donleavy -
I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
Taylor Lautner -
I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
Omar Sy -
Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.
J. B. Pritzker -
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
Daisy Ashford
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It's insane how many Roman coins are being found! It's as if all Romans had holes in their pockets. They sowed coins wherever they went. Even in the fields. Maybe to grow money . . .
Pablo Picasso -
I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.
Rabih Alameddine -
I really take a lot of influence from London style.
Kaya Scodelario -
It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.
Clancy Brown -
A miracle... my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it's hard, everyone knows it's hard.
Gwen Stefani No Doubt -
In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.
Jane Smiley