Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes

I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.

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• Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • May
  • Character

• I'm not Cinderella.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Cinderella

• I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Age
  • Play

• Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • College
  • Myself
  • Never

• You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Want
  • Win
  • Games

• Marriage has made me safer.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Marriage
  • Made

• I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Style
  • Intimidating
  • Demanding

• Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

  

  Kanye West
  • Music
  • Power
  • Basketball

• I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Always
  • Person
  • Going

• I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Different
  • Know
  • Street

• When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Help
  • Fun
  • Gift

• I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Movie
  • Future
  • Myself

• Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Opportunity
  • Woman

• In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Spanish
  • Court
  • Jews

• It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Money
  • Mean
  • Scary

• You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Time
  • You
  • Boyfriend

• I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Lonely
  • Afraid
  • Top

• I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Music
  • Think
  • Morning

• People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Job

• Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Bad
  • Taken
  • Old

• The body's immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.

  

  Anthony Fauci

• I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
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  • Childhood
  • Same

• I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
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