Jonathan Stroud Quotes
I like using traditional beliefs in my fantasies, even though I always end up warping them to suit my purpose: it somehow makes everything feel more 'solid' if it's got a long history behind it.Jonathan Stroud
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
Carlos Fuentes -
I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
Rachel Johnson -
I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
Magnus Larsson -
Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
Utah Phillips -
Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
Aaron Neville
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I don't write about Google except to insult the company.
Kara Swisher -
Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack Obama -
Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
Katee Sackhoff -
I like to do my own make-up.
Kate Winslet -
What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
Cara Delevingne -
I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
Aaron Paul
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In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.
Daniel Boulud -
Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
Larry Wilcox -
When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.
Abigail Disney -
I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
Zoe Tapper -
But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
Hank Sauer -
Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
Jack Paar
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
Kate McKinnon -
I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.
Carl Hiaasen -
Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigarettes indicate something is wrong with criminal justice in America.
Rand Paul -
'I don't see much sense in that,' said Rabbit.'No,' said Pooh humbly, 'there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it on the way.'
A. A. Milne -
Honestly, I get character ideas from the most inane places. Sometimes a song will give me an idea. Sometimes I will just hear a snippet of conversation that ends up having nothing to do with the book that emerges.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes -
I like using traditional beliefs in my fantasies, even though I always end up warping them to suit my purpose: it somehow makes everything feel more 'solid' if it's got a long history behind it.
Jonathan Stroud