John McEnroe Quotes
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo -
Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
Kara Walker -
For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
Garrett Hedlund -
In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.
Jack Lemmon -
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
Barbara Deming -
Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
Ralph Gibson
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
Karin Slaughter -
A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
Pat Conroy -
I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
Manuel Puig -
If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
Nancy Friday -
Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
P. J. O'Rourke -
We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
Najib Razak
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My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
Ed Sheeran -
Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
Barry Jenkins -
It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
Irina Shayk -
I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
Park Geun-hye -
I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
Frances Farmer -
If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
Naya Rivera
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I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.
Randy Falco -
As a child, I could beat most kids in sprints, but overall, wrestling was the most natural sport for me. In fact, I was a pretty good high school wrestler. I was unusually quick and strong.
Henry Paulson -
I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.
Dan Chaon -
We all have common frailties but we need to treasure friends more.
Eric Cantona -
The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.
Lysander Spooner -
I am someone who gets pretty worked up.
John McEnroe