J. P. Donleavy Quotes
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
Olivia Wilde -
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
Oliver Hudson -
I can do whatever I want.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
Natalie Massenet -
I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
Edan Lepucki
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
Aaron Neville -
I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
Vanessa Mae -
There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
Iain Banks -
I'm not cynical.
Laura Schlessinger -
I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
Viktor Orban -
I have always liked a challenge.
Damon Hill
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If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
Imtiaz Ali -
It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
Patricia Heaton -
I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
A. S. Byatt -
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Earl Nightingale -
We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
Mahmoud Abbas
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I usually have a general idea of where the story is going, but I try to avoid planning in too much detail. The best endings are those that emerge only after I've thought long and hard about the various ways the story might end. Then I choose the ending that seems surprising yet somehow inevitable.
Karl Iagnemma -
Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.
Naturi Naughton 3LW -
Certainly, Occupy Wall Street protesters have different ideas about the movement's mission. Many of the marchers I met even disagreed on the purpose of their trek - some thought it was about getting to Washington to protest the 'supercommittee'; others thought it was about visiting other Occupations.
Elizabeth Flock -
There are certain storylines I shouldn't have done, there are certain actors I shouldn't have cast - guest stars, I mean.
Marc Cherry -
'I frankly doubt that.''Ah. That is your privilege. But doubt doesn’t alter fact, sir.'
C. J. Cherryh -
The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.
J. P. Donleavy