A. A. Milne Quotes

She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead.

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• No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Matter
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• My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
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• It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Writing
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• It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.

  

  Sam Graves
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• When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Women
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• I received free health care.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Free
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• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
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• You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • You
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• What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Enjoy
  • Disappointed

• I will say I am the sum of my books.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Books
  • Sum

• Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Never
  • Independent
  • Fruit

• Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.

  

  Dan Abrams
  • People
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• Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Life
  • World
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• I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Actor
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• I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Life
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• I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Life
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• The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • New
  • Year
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• I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • People
  • Good
  • Happiness

• I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.

  

  Leighton Meester
  • Alone

• so the countess passed on until she came through the little park, where Niobe presented her with a cabinet, and so departed.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• If the crowd is too big, it's too much for me. I took my daughter down there, and all I did was spend all of my time worrying that she was going to get lost because you're caught between somebody with a sandwich in their hand and somebody in a costume. It's really crazy.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Time
  • She
  • Lost

• I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about the business. She married my stepdad when I was about four, and he had been an actor. Because I was a really smiley kid and could read, which is something they're always looking for, she just decided to give it a shot.

  

  Charlotte Arnold
  • She
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• She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • She
  • Spring
  • Winter