Illeana Douglas Quotes

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• Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Same

• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Feel

• My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

  

  Yael Stone
  • People
  • Different
  • Together

• If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Genius
  • Just
  • Wait

• Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Earth

• One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • America
  • Creative
  • Solitude

• Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Time
  • Age
  • Taken

• When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Grow

• I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Lost
  • Friend
  • Never

• Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Experience
  • Small
  • Place

• If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • World
  • God
  • Power

• You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Never
  • See

• If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Books
  • Television
  • Scared

• It was a labor of love and they did really well.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Love
  • Really
  • Labor

• I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Comfortable
  • Skin
  • Jew

• The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • More
  • Learned
  • Felt

• Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

  

  Elias Hicks
  • God
  • Christian

• God's kingdom is launched through Jesus and particularly through his death and resurrection; but, by the Spirit, this kingdom is not an escape from the present world but rather its transformation, already in the present (starting with Jesus' resurrection) and in the ultimate future (the new heaven and earth including our own resurrection).

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • God
  • Future

• By what route do otherwise sane men come to believe such palpable nonsense? How is it possible for a human brain to be divided into two insulated halves, one functioning normally, naturally

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Brain

• In the transcribing and the editing, you want some retention of how the person speaks - you don't want to edit out all of the hesitations and idiosyncrasies. And to get people to say something they've never said before. That's big.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • People
  • Speak
  • Hesitation

• God only knows what else is on the web about me.

  

  Illeana Douglas
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