Rita Mae Brown Quotes
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My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
Kate Thompson -
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter -
I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
Francesca Lia Block -
I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
Haley Bennett -
I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
Daley Thompson -
I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
Samantha Shannon
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
Jack Horner -
Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
Ramon Rodriguez -
I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
Lana Turner -
I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
Damien Rice -
I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
Ziggy Marley -
People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
Ian Mckellen
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My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.
Ted Allen -
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu -
I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
Laura Schlessinger -
We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
Maeve Binchy -
One day, I want to make a PG film.
Jackie Chan -
When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.
Canelo Alvarez
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You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real.
Libba Bray -
It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
Emma Goldman -
Writing 'The Spirit' is really fun.
Brian Azzarello -
Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here.
Enda Kenny -
I'd love to do a cop film in America. That's a genre I absolutely adore.
Danny Boyle -
Morals are private. Decency is public.
Rita Mae Brown