Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.
Mamie Gummer -
I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.
Canelo Alvarez -
Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
Magic Johnson -
And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
Warren Zevon -
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
Dana Spiotta
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
Mandy Patinkin -
You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
Malik Jackson -
Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.
Pam Bondi -
The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.
Damon Lindelof -
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
Salman Rushdie
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Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?
J. G. Ballard -
The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
Harlan Coben -
Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.
Maisie Williams -
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
Sam Harris -
I genuinely do think that skin does have a lot to do with genetics. I was blessed. You should see my mom and grandma - it's unfair!
Hailey Bieber -
I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
A. N. Wilson
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Millennials - who will soon be a full one-third of American adults - may be especially ready to become engaged in politics with a candidate who wants to give them a government that will leave them alone and get its finances in order so that they don't inherit an economic collapse.
Gary Johnson -
Her smile was a bite, and I was its target.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
I'm working on new techniques. I'm trying to find a way to make fresco that can be detached from a wall, and I'm trying to find new people who can help me work on a very large scale in bronze.
Camille Henrot -
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas