Jeannette Walls Quotes
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
Yves Saint Laurent -
I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
Ed Harris -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
Edgar Wright -
I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
Rajiv Ouseph -
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
Rachel Miner -
Speaking is physically difficult for me.
Gabrielle Giffords -
I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
R. Kelly -
I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
Vanessa Kerry
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
Edith Wharton -
The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.
Gail Collins -
The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
Sam Houston -
I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
Cameron Russell -
I have very eclectic tastes.
Carly Fiorina -
I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
Calvin Klein
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
Sam Jaeger -
I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.
Yannick Noah -
I think it's really important to give back and show other people that you care.
Carly Schroeder -
Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.
Jill Lepore -
I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.
Jeannette Walls