Joanna Scott Quotes
Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too often read and admired as autobiographical expression. And thanks to the democratic exposures of the web, it's easier than ever to document private experiences and divulge the most intimate secrets.Joanna Scott
Quotes to Explore
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen -
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
Harry Browne -
I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
Zara Larsson -
I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
Felix Dennis -
It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
Carine Roitfeld -
She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
Jack Kevorkian
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
Hansika Motwani -
I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
Carine Roitfeld -
What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
Hans Blix -
I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
T Bone Burnett -
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 -
We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
Katha Pollitt
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
Maajid Nawaz -
I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
Natalie Dormer -
Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
Olivia Munn -
When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
Facundo Pieres -
I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
Aaron Sorkin -
I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical; it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.
Sam Heughan
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
Carlos Ghosn -
Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
Karen Horney -
Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
David McCullough -
Amor et melle et felle est faecundissimus.
Plautus -
Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too often read and admired as autobiographical expression. And thanks to the democratic exposures of the web, it's easier than ever to document private experiences and divulge the most intimate secrets.
Joanna Scott