Jean Craighead George Quotes
I have discovered I cannot dream up characters as incredible as the ones I meet in the wilderness.Jean Craighead George
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
Salma Hayek -
I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.
Laraine Day -
I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.
Manny Montana -
My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
Dakota Fanning -
My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
Harland Williams -
As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!
Daniel Boulud
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
Halima Aden -
People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
Jackson Browne -
I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
Tamsin Egerton -
Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.
Basmah bint Saud -
Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
Damien Rice -
My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.
Damon Wayans
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I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'
Zack Snyder -
I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
T. J. Perkins -
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
Oliver Goldsmith -
My dad was so much fun growing up.
Abby Elliott -
I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.
Paige O'Hara -
I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.
Zig Ziglar
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My wife and I both grew up with parents who were very young. Her mom was, I think, 17 or 18 when she was born; my mom was 15 when I was born. So, as we got older, we started thinking a lot about that - about the time that those people missed because we came along when we did and because they devoted so much of their lives to taking care of us.
Jason Isbell -
If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.
Sam Ervin -
I first got involved in soccer when I was three years old. And I played until I was sixteen, so for thirteen years, and I love it.
Leah Pipes -
I like the idea of playing a historical detective.
Eva Mendes -
There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.
Francesca Annis -
I have discovered I cannot dream up characters as incredible as the ones I meet in the wilderness.
Jean Craighead George