Jenny Offill Quotes
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
Mahershala Ali -
With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
M. J. Rose -
I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
Karolina Kurkova -
I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
Forest Whitaker -
I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
Harold Pinter -
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
J. Martin Kohe
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
Ralph Baer -
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne Dyer -
I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
Lainie Kazan -
It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.
Taylor Swift -
Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
Yuna -
Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Hannibal Buress
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
Bebe Neuwirth -
What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
Rahul Dravid -
You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
Edie Adams -
Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
Mahershala Ali -
I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
Taylor Lautner -
I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
Gayle Forman
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Before the eyes can see, they must be incapable of tears. Before the ear can hear, it must have lost its sensitiveness. Before the voice can speak in the presence of the Masters, it must have lost the power to wound. Before the soul can stand in the presence of the Masters, its feet must be washed in the blood of the heart.
Mabel Collins -
Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
Fernando Pessoa -
Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
Damon Albarn Gorillaz -
I tried to do Kwanzaa with my family and was like, 'This sucks. What am I doing this for?' For me, I felt like I was doing it because I was trying to live up to someone else's idea of what 'black' was.
Kenya Barris -
Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.
Kent Nerburn -
What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake.
Jenny Offill