Miriam Toews Quotes

Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.

Miriam Toews

• Honesty
• Discretion
• Misdirection

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• The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

  

  Wallace Stevens
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• There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.

  

  Parker Posey
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• I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.

  

  Adam Driver
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  • Sad
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• There are no secrets - I've been fighting around 154 lbs and 155 lbs, so I feel comfortable at this weight. This is my weight class.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

  

  Rahm Emanuel
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• 'Sicario' was successful, but it was successful because Denis and the producers were, you know, they were very lean. It was very lean filmmaking.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Life
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• If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.

  

  Hamid Karzai
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• When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Great
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• When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.

  

  Dan O'Brien
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• When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.

  

  Tamara Mellon
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• Now I know who you are Yeah, I see I should have known it from the start.

  

  Demi Lovato

• I don't really have any big plans for 2008.

  

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• There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
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• Food has always been in my life. Being born in Ethiopia, where there was a lack of food, and then really cooking with my grandmother Helga in Sweden. And my grandmother Helga was a cook's cook.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
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• For me, becoming the best you can be in something that you love, like rowing, is incredibly challenging, and what you learn about yourself, the sense of satisfaction as you get older and move on, you'll never forget that. It's huge.

  

  Tyler Winklevoss

• I'm overcritical, insensitive, and pushy when it comes to me. With everybody else, I'm a great listener, and all I want is for them to be happy.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
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• Non-studio entities can experiment with storytelling that might be too niche... for a studio.

  

  Freddie Wong

• I am not a person to compromise on my priorities and family just for a show.

  

  Karishma Tanna
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• Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

  

  John Keats
  • Real

• The more I thought about myself, the weaker I got. The more I recognized that I was serving a purpose larger than myself, the stronger I got.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Purpose
  • Stronger
  • Recognized

• It's important to make women feel confident, because I think they are more important than men.

  

  Azzedine Alaia
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • War
  • Popular
  • Wicked

• Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.

  

  Miriam Toews
  • Honesty
  • Discretion
  • Misdirection