Stephen Ambrose Quotes
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I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600 guitar. But I got really into garage rock and local bands, and I noticed they played really crappy guitars. So I thought, 'Hey, I should get a crappy guitar, too!'
Mac DeMarco
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
Tamera Mowry
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I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.
J. C. Chandor
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Iris Murdoch
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
Tadanobu Asano
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Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
Randal Kleiser
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
Karen Joy Fowler
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
Rachel Johnson
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
Waka Flocka Flame
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The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.
Oscar Wilde
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Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
Xavier Dolan
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
Ida Lupino
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
Harold Pinter
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
Fran Tarkenton
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I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
Stephen Ambrose
