William Trevor Quotes
By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.William Trevor
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
Zig Ziglar -
After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
Jaclyn Smith -
From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
Nate Powell -
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
Frances Wright
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
Tamala Jones -
What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
Saint Ignatius -
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Carl Jung -
I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu -
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
Fran Lebowitz
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
Walter Pater -
One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.
Dan Quinn -
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
P. J. O'Rourke -
In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
Dan Gilbert -
MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.
Carlene Carter
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
Jack Kemp -
When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very much a starter car.
Amy Purdy -
Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
Samantha Power -
By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.
William Trevor