Francine Prose Quotes
Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.Francine Prose
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
Becki Newton -
If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
Eddie Murphy -
I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
Zach LaVine -
I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
Nas -
I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
Rachel McAdams -
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
Ramakrishna
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
Candice Bergen -
If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
Dana Carvey -
Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
E. L. Doctorow -
I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.
Uday Kiran -
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
Laura Linney -
There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.
Parker Palmer
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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
Yoko Ono -
My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.
Barbara Park -
I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.
Gary Coleman -
Seattle sucks. New York and Chicago are real cities. Seattle is Dubuque, Iowa, putting on airs. People here think Seattle is Paris... it ain't. I've been to Paris, and this place isn't Paris.
Dan Savage -
We thought being offered the M.B.E. Member of the Order of the British Empire was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.
John Lennon The Beatles -
Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.
Andrea Bocelli
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I must admit that self-tanner is one beauty arena I've been hesitant to explore, let alone fully embrace.
Emily Weiss -
The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job.
George Lucas -
When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.
Joe Satriani Chickenfoot -
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
David Mitchell -
I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk. I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.
Maria Semple -
Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.
Francine Prose