Tony Hillerman Quotes
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
Lasse Hallstrom -
Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
Camille Pissarro -
I like being unconventional.
Florence Griffith Joyner -
Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
Ed Markey -
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky -
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
Flo Rida -
As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
Karin Slaughter -
I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book.
Nancy Werlin -
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
Edna Ferber -
In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.
Dana Perino
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There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'
Laura Bell Bundy -
I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.
Barbara Hambly -
I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.
Eddi Reader -
I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.
Adam Grant -
Mental silence is the perfect response to a challenge.
Vernon Howard -
I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.
Alfred North Whitehead
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I was really grateful for the photography classes, the art classes, and the video classes. They would let me skip all my other classes and stay and work on my projects.
Kali Uchis -
When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.
Jerry Lewis -
All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.
Camryn Manheim -
I didn't even know that there was a startup culture, that there were events with people who built businesses. When I started meeting those people and going in to that world, I felt like I was among my people for the first time in my life.
Kathryn Minshew -
Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.
Tony Hillerman