Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
Carlos Fuentes -
I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
Vicky McClure -
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. King -
These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
Samuel Hopkins -
Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
Laura Hillenbrand -
We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
Wayne Coyne
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
Barbara De Angelis -
God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
Carlton Cuse -
I study a lot of philosophy. I want to be an example of how to enjoy this success, and that's exactly what I've done. I've enjoyed every moment.
Flip Wilson
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Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.
Earl Wilson -
When it comes to making laws that protect the public from the financial services industry, Congress has done a progressively worse job since the Pecora Commission hearings of the early 1930s, which led to Congress taking bold steps to regulate banking and securities firms in 1933 and 1934.
Gary Weiss -
I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.
Victoria Pendleton -
'Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.
Dallas Willard -
The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
Unfortunately for the 'Tomorrow' series, I feel that for the actors that were in the first film, maybe our commitment to it is done.
Caitlin Stasey
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Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.
Jack London -
I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.
Mark McGwire -
Atmosphere on the sets of 'YHM' is absolutely brilliant. It's kind of picnic always, and we have a gala time shooting together.
Karan Patel -
I like a quiet life.
Wendy Cope -
I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers -
Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
Erma Bombeck