Susan Orlean Quotes
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.Susan Orlean
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
Canelo Alvarez -
During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
Vidal Sassoon -
One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
Manny Farber -
With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
Maika Monroe -
I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
Pablo Sandoval -
You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West -
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Karl Kraus -
What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
Barack Obama -
I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
Lars von Trier -
I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.
Nancy Pickard -
There's a lot of girls out there that can relate to me. They can look at me and see themselves a little bit. There's a lot of girls out there that have a tougher side to them. I just think that people are really grown and attracted to that, and that's why people like to see me fight.
Paige VanZant
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
Nat Friedman -
Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
Jack Nicklaus -
I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
Aaron Eckhart -
I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski -
When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
Kate Williams
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I love to be surrounded by nature.
Carlene Carter -
Everything that I have is natural – braid, nails – I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.
Yulia Tymoshenko -
I have written stories since I was a child.
Rachel Joyce -
I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
Octavia Spencer -
Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
Dan Marino -
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.
Susan Orlean