Penny Junor Quotes
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
Barry Hannah -
We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
Ramez Naam -
Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
Malorie Blackman -
Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
Larry Flynt -
Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
Karolina Kurkova -
I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
Yves Saint Laurent
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
Abraham Lincoln -
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
Dani Shapiro -
Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
Rachel Stevens -
If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
Felicity Jones -
For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
Upamanyu Chatterjee
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
Taylor Sheridan -
Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist.
Madi Diaz -
To go back means defeat.
Oliver Tambo -
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian -
In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.
Olivia Cooke -
I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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I wanted to be the girl that talks about getting a guy. I felt like that was a different approach to writing.
Kelsea Ballerini -
I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
Olivia Culpo -
America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
Randi Weingarten -
I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
Prince Charles -
Everything in adulthood can be traced back to childhood.
Penny Junor