Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes
I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.Jeffrey Eugenides
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
Natalie Zea -
I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
J. G. Ballard -
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
Vera Wang -
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid -
Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
Natalie Dormer -
It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
Washed Out
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
Caity Lotz -
People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
Laura Osnes -
It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
Bebe Rexha -
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Hannah Arendt -
The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
Babyface -
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
Kaley Cuoco -
As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
Kate Reardon -
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Samuel Adams -
The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
Tariq Ali -
I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.
Taylor Lautner -
I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
Natasha Trethewey
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
Gabriel Lippmann -
Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.
Garry Winogrand -
I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
Dana Perino -
The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.
Alton Brown -
You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.
Pierce Brosnan -
I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.
Jeffrey Eugenides