Pam Houston Quotes
There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn’t where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and I knew I couldn’t ever stop living under that big sky.Pam Houston
Quotes to Explore
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
Harold Prince -
I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
Carl Lewis -
The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
Kara Swisher -
I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
Vikram Seth -
Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
Kate Christensen -
My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
Daniel Baldwin
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I choose to focus on the positive.
Halima Aden -
Have a little faith. Don't give up.
Fantasia Barrino -
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
Barbara Bush -
I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
Nancy Reagan
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
Karolyn Grimes -
Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
Nawal El Saadawi -
My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
Dakota Johnson -
The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.
Harland Williams -
Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
Naguib Mahfouz -
I always put on M.A.C. Prep and Primer before anything.
Yuna
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The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and soft tissue that serves as a natural shock absorber. Some shocks, however, can't be absorbed, and when the head gets clobbered too hard, the brain can twist or torque or rattle around inside its skeletal casing.
Jeffrey Kluger -
I study to learn, to be an educated person.
Gary Sinise -
Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my good-only they were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
Ralph Ellison -
There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn’t where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and I knew I couldn’t ever stop living under that big sky.
Pam Houston