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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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I don't get jealous - I get suspicious.
Rita Ora -
Consecration is only possible when we give up our will about EVERYTHING.
F. B. Meyer -
'A great British icon' is not the phrase I'd use about anybody, but there are people you admire that happen to be British. I think it's a phrase that gets attached to anyone who's been around long enough to become overfamiliar.
Colin Firth -
Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.
Linda Chavez -
Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.
Tony Hillerman