Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

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• Los Cabos has been an amalgam of many cultures that have been coming here. There have been beautiful Jesuit missions for example, in many places around this area. The towns are incredible. But there is a very strong Mexicanized culture here that exists because people from different parts of Mexico have come to live here.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.

  

  Madchen Amick
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• I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.

  

  Pat Quinn
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• One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.

  

  Yohan Blake
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• I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.

  

  Kate Moss
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• I do periodically ride a bus with my kids.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.

  

  J. C. Watts
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• Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Care
  • Race
  • Hollywood

• A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

  

  Ogden Nash
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• I've no idea if I want to do this for the rest of my life, so I want to try and work with the best people I can.

  

  Jack Lowden
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• When you're eight or nine years old and you look at the TV set men are landing on the moon - anything is possible. And that is something we need to not lose sight of, is that the inspiration and permission to dream is immense. … It's important to have specific dreams.

  

  Randy Pausch
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• I don't believe in one-person productions. Everyone on the team is important and needs to know that he or she is vital.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Believe
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  • She

• ...and he is as eitherhanded as a spider,...

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful.

  

  Matt Lauer

• The beautiful thing about this country is that I can be a Christian and feel free to do so. Or somebody cannot be a Christian and do whatever that entails. Or somebody can be a Christian and still be gay, and I support it.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Country
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• But I thought love would more than prevail.

  

  David Gest

• I have a lot of fantasy.

  

  Jil Sander

• I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.

  

  Mario Vazquez
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• Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler

• I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.

  

  Brian Mulroney
  • Future
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• I would not have lasted a minute, literally a minute, on this Earth without God and angels by my side, because I was born. And right as I was born, I went into a respiratory arrest. So, big things that keep me going are friends and family, God. And another thing is looking forward to what's going to happen tomorrow.

  

  Mattie Stepanek
  • God
  • Family
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• When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's the whole reason that I did a solo career. And that's, you know, when I told Fleetwood Mac I was going to do that, they were of course terrified that I would do that record and then that I would quit.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
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• Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

  

  Catherine Drinker Bowen
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