Janet Fitch Quotes
When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.Janet Fitch
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
Gary Lineker -
If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
Fede Alvarez -
You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
Zack Snyder -
I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
Fatty Arbuckle -
My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
Iain Duncan Smith -
I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
Gary Shteyngart
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder -
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Quentin Crisp -
Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
Frances McDormand -
Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
Mads Mikkelsen -
When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
Kate Adie
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
Natalie Zea -
Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
Vince Staples -
I get really excited about other female acts. I feel inspired when I see another women succeeding in music because it makes me realize that if they can do it, I can do it.
Rachel Platten -
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl Jung -
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
S. E. Hinton -
Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
Wellington Mara
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
Mae West -
The reality of America is mass-market stupidity.
Bill Buford -
English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
Yaya Toure -
I'd end all of the wars. I'd bring all of the troops home and make sure that they're taken care of for life - for what they did protecting our country.
Warren G -
But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.
Jon Huntsman, Jr. -
When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.
Janet Fitch