Anna Journey Quotes

I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.

Anna Journey

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• A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Sometimes
  • Rules
  • Mortgage

• I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Family
  • High
  • Dad

• Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Moving
  • Development
  • Prison

• I realized that I've lived half my life already, and it's time to believe in - and stand up for - myself.

  

  Phoebe Snow
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

  

  Charles Lindbergh

• I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • World
  • Free
  • Earth

• What has always made the Clintons great politicians and better people is their unyielding commitment to expanding the middle class for everyone.

  

  James Carville
  • People
  • Great
  • Commitment

• During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.

  

  Amin Maalouf
  • America
  • Moving

• I'm not gonna ruin my reputation with the blacks no more.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli

• I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.

  

  Mark Shields
  • Effort
  • Bridge

• I think you find stories with fresh perspectives, and there can be a danger in the opposite way when you start getting too cynical and things just don't start seeming like stories, and things don't seem exciting anymore. It's like, 'Yep, this is my fourth caucus, and I know everybody and know everything and I am writing just to impress my friends.'

  

  Amy Chozick
  • Writing
  • Friends

• I am more spiritual than religious.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.

  

  Emma Thompson
  • People
  • Sex

• The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

  

  James Monroe
  • Great
  • Important
  • Alone

• Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time.

  

  Janet Street-Porter
  • Time

• I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have adventures instead.

  

  Alexandra Cassavetes
  • People
  • Travel

• Being on set is really hard because there's craft service.

  

  Marissa Jaret Winokur
  • Service

• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

  

  Jim Ryun
  • Habit
  • motivation

• As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his,

  

  Kabir
  • Long
  • Die
  • Teacher

• Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Feeling
  • Faith
  • Poverty

• But don't you find this interesting that the one big area where gay men are more like straight men is in sex? I mean, that is?both amusing and odd.

  

  Lesley Stahl
  • Men
  • Interesting
  • Sex

• I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • People
  • Different
  • Movie

• I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.

  

  Anna Journey
  • Intimacy
  • Draws
  • Grotesque