Alexander Masters Quotes
Put two macho groups together and give the first desperation and numbers, and the second truncheons and protective clothing, and the result is like a laboratory civil war.Alexander Masters
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
Imran Amed -
I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
Natascha McElhone -
Tony Orlando is one of the nicest guys I have ever met - bar none - in my entire life. I was always a fan when I was a kid - you know, huge fan. Who wasn't a fan of Tony Orlando?
Larry the Cable Guy -
Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
Ian Mcewan -
I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
Laura Dern -
I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.
Sally Phillips
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When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.
Taylor Swift -
I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.
Edith Head -
Mourning in America, Savage Love column, The Stranger, 15 November 2016
Dan Savage -
Habla con su propia palabra sólo la herida.
Antonio Porchia -
What are you going to do now? You'll collect loves like stamps. You've got doubles and no one will trade with you. And you've got damaged ones
Yehuda Amichai -
He couldn't find anybody who would rent him a place to live, so he had to live in this woman's house.
Orlando Cepeda
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But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.
Barack Obama -
The key ingredient of politics is the idea that all of society's ills can be cured politically. It's like a cookbook where the recipe for everything is to fry it. The fruit cocktail is fried.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.
Vance Havner -
Beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up
Cyprian Norwid -
America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.
Nicky Oppenheimer -
Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
Willa Cather
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
Seneca the Younger -
Put two macho groups together and give the first desperation and numbers, and the second truncheons and protective clothing, and the result is like a laboratory civil war.
Alexander Masters