Jonathan Franzen Quotes
The technology I like is the American paperback edition of 'Freedom.' I can spill water on it, and it would still work! So it's pretty good technology.Jonathan Franzen
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Barbra Streisand -
A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
Daisaku Ikeda -
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln -
It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
Mahalia Jackson -
It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
Gavin Newsom -
Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
Fiona Shaw
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
Xavier Niel -
It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
Zoe Saldana -
Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
Sam Graves -
I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
Maggie Smith -
So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
Felicity Kendal -
If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
Ted Danson
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
Fay Godwin -
What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
Ovid -
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
Walter Gropius -
I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
Zubin Mehta -
My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
Maika Monroe -
A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
Halsey
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
Natalia Makarova -
I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.
Lamorne Morris -
Mr. Wilder says he would rather have me help than any man he ever sawed with. And, believe me, I learned how to take care of hens and to make them lay.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
I'm sorry I'm crying again on national television. Thank you so much, you have no idea what this means to me.
Kelly Clarkson -
The technology I like is the American paperback edition of 'Freedom.' I can spill water on it, and it would still work! So it's pretty good technology.
Jonathan Franzen