Jayne Anne Phillips Quotes
I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.Jayne Anne Phillips
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush -
Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
Felix Baumgartner -
There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
Quentin Tarantino -
I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
Nat King Cole -
I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
K. D. Lang -
I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
Fetty Wap
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
Vince Lombardi -
I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
Saint Patrick -
The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
Larry Wilmore -
When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
Mahesh Babu -
There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
Ted Nugent -
My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
Vince Vaughn
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
Owen Paterson -
I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
Ralph Lauren -
Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
Nancy Gibbs
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
Kate Brown -
When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.
Chris O'Dowd -
I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.
Tabitha Suzuma -
..Whoever dewlls on beauty tends to become beautiful; there will be a grace and charm to expressing itself through that person which no one can fail to recognize and appreciate.
Ernest Holmes -
The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.
Mary McCarthy -
I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.
Jayne Anne Phillips