Charlene Spretnak Quotes

As Elizabeth Fisher pointed out in Woman's Creation, human history's first and longest reigning social unit was the mother and child, not the husband and wife.

Charlene Spretnak

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• To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • People
  • Me
  • Reason

• I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Live
  • Art

• Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Gossip

• There is no bore like a clever bore.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
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  • Bore

• I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Hair

• Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Around
  • Ever
  • Merle Haggard

• I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Hate
  • Stop
  • Television

• I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Generation
  • Younger
  • Though

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Failure
  • Street
  • Detour

• There's no such thing as a specific authenticity to what Mexico is, because Mexico is incredibly complex and varied, and the food is completely different if you travel 50 kilometers. It just changes all the time.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Different
  • Food

• Siva is one of the best writers in the industry, and 'Srimanthudu' is a great script.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Great
  • Best
  • Industry

• When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider's instruction to do what needs to be done.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Done
  • Job
  • Training

• I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Short

• Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Know
  • Enough
  • Lucky

• Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Parents
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• I am a private human.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Human
  • Private

• I like to get real pretty.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Like

• We're not lawbreakers, we're law-abiding, and intend to stay that way.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • Way
  • Law
  • Stay

• I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.

  

  James Carville
  • Happy
  • Childhood
  • Scars

• Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Money

• My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.

  

  Aerin Lauder
  • She
  • Mother
  • Strong

• One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.

  

  D.E. Stevenson
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Help

• As Elizabeth Fisher pointed out in Woman's Creation, human history's first and longest reigning social unit was the mother and child, not the husband and wife.

  

  Charlene Spretnak
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Social