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Went to the paper shop - it had blown away.

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• I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • School
  • Pretty

• A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Time
  • Long
  • Today

• I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Story
  • Student
  • Iceland

• Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Think
  • Mom

• One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Nature
  • Language
  • Same

• I started singing in church with my sister Maria when I was four, and I've been pretty much singing ever since. There's never been anything else for me to do.

  

  Imelda May
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Church

• Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Cooking

• Really I peeped dude at the bar like really Lookin like he want a good time like really Said he had a friend for my homegirl Lilly Lilly Lilly Lilly

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Time
  • Good
  • Want

• When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Learn
  • Teach
  • Taught

• He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.

  

  Lisa See
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Feeling

• I'm coming on home to you instead cause they're all too ugly tonight.

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Home
  • Ugly
  • Adultery

• When you're faced with a choice, remember this: Everything else will pass away. Your family. Your friends. Your material possessions. Your beauty. Your youth. Your life. And there is only one thing that remains. Ask yourself: Which are you chasing?

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.

  

  George Clooney
  • Car
  • Deeds
  • Flight

• One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Phoenix
  • Syphilis

• The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.

  

  Anaxagoras
  • Stone
  • Greece
  • Fiery

• Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Conscience
  • Passions
  • Human Laws

• Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Album
  • Million
  • Copies

• I am, as you know, a fan of nature, said Reginald. And yet, nature doesn't find ways to do anything. Nature has no opinion, no agenda. Nature provides a playing field, a not particularly level one, on which we compete with all creatures great and small.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Nature
  • Compete
  • Provides

• Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Always
  • Changing
  • Momentum

• If the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Mind
  • Attained
  • Acquirement

• The longer I live and the more I read, the more certain I become that the real poems about spring aren't written on paper. They are written in the back pasture and the near meadow, and they are issued in a new revised edition every April.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Live
  • Real
  • Spring

• Went to the paper shop - it had blown away.

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Paper
  • Shops