E. L. James Quotes
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
Rachel Cusk -
Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
K. Flay -
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx -
I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
Imelda Marcos -
The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
Orison Swett Marden -
My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
Laura Dern
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
Dan Gable -
Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
Iman -
That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
Lars von Trier -
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw -
I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause.
Dan Hawkins -
I never thought I would become that person who loves working out. It sucks while you're doing it, but the second you finish, it's like, 'Wow, I feel great! I'm stronger and much more confident.'
Zoey Deutch
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D. H. Lawrence -
My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.
J. B. Pritzker -
If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.
Laura Dern
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Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
Dan Quisenberry -
Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.
John S. Tanner -
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
John Stossel -
It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I'm not a great writer.
E. L. James