A. A. Milne Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I like to prove people wrong.
-
I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
-
I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
-
Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
-
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
-
I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
-
I like risky stuff.
-
I like to get to bed with a clear head.
-
I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
-
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
-
I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
-
Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
-
I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
-
I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
-
Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
-
I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
-
I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
-
I like music a lot.
-
The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
-
I just write mechanical things.
-
I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.
-
I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
-
She hasn't been back since, and we have a young per diem substitute who had taught shoes in a vocational high school on her last job. Though her license is English, she had been called to the Shoe Department, where she traced the history of shoes from Cinderella and Puss in Boots through Galsworthy and modern advertising. "Best shoe lesson they ever had," she told me cheerfully. "Until a cop came in, dangling handcuffs: 'Lady, that kid I gotta have.'" To her, Calvin Coolidge is Paradise.
-
Tiggers don't like honey.