Barbara Mattes Abercrombie Quotes
Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you, and you find yourself writing your way out of loneliness, writing into your own company.Barbara Mattes Abercrombie
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
Ulysses S. Grant -
I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
Madchen Amick -
Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
Abbie Cornish -
I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
Manish Dayal -
Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
Landon Donovan -
I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
Utah Phillips
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
Vikas Swarup -
To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.
Barry Silbert -
It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
Barbara Olson -
My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
Samaire Armstrong -
But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
Oscar Robertson -
If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.
Pat Robertson
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I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
Mads Mikkelsen -
It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.
Olly Murs -
Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.
Warren Rudman -
It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.
Radha Mitchell -
I think Barcelona and the Spanish national team have been good for soccer because there are a lot of teams that come up playing from the back: with the goalie, the defense, moving up a defender to midfield, playing attacking soccer. I think fans want to see that. They want to see beautiful soccer, a spectacle, and Barcelona does that.
Xavi -
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple – to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
Craig Raine
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I feel blessed to keep my adventurous passion at peak while doing a daily soap.
Divyanka Tripathi -
Play and write music the way you want the world to be.
Wayne Shorter -
I don't vote. I voted Labour once, in that moment of euphoria. I know that if people only made a voice for change, then change will happen, but I'm not that person. I'm painting pictures.
Gary Hume -
Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you, and you find yourself writing your way out of loneliness, writing into your own company.
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