Charles Reznikoff Quotes
Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies a girder, still itself among the rubbishCharles Reznikoff
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When I hung up my toe shoes, I didn't look back. In all my years, I have never looked back.
Patricia McBride -
The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.
Dan Buettner -
It's fear that makes an act courageous.
Denise Hunter -
I think there are a lot of older people who are moving through life the right way, and they just don't know it.
Elizabeth Rogers -
I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly.
Joy Fielding -
Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.
Paul Shaffer
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I was always a junk food person, still am.
Dolly Parton -
If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.
Rebecca Eaton -
I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.
Fleur East -
'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
Hanif Kureishi -
My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.
Flannery O'Connor
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A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.
Oprah Winfrey -
I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.
Maggie Stiefvater -
When you send out real love, real love will return to you.
Florence Scovel Shinn -
I believe the best gift you could ever give a woman is your time.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner.
Ezra Taft Benson -
Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies a girder, still itself among the rubbish
Charles Reznikoff