Jack McDevitt Quotes
A man is entitled to only one great passion in a lifetime. Whether it’s music or a profession or a woman, everything else pales in its afterglow. The searing shock so changes one’s chemistry that if the object is lost, the experience can never be repeated. Only anticlimax remains.Jack McDevitt
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
Pam Grier -
I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
Fatima Sana Shaikh -
Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
Samantha Power -
I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.
Sam Abell -
There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
Tasha Smith -
The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
Ira Glass -
Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
Rachel Stevens -
I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
Wale -
There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
Walter Smith -
My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
Ralph Norman -
I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
Dan Quisenberry
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Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
Tamara Mellon -
What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
Randy Moss -
I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
Karl Lagerfeld -
As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
Gary Johnson -
I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
Kanye West
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You learn quickly at 'SNL' you get in trouble if you compare yourself to other people, where they're at, or what other people had done before you.
Bill Hader -
For me, there is no better tapa than a really good stuffed olive.
Jose Andres -
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I'm a writer first and a woman after.
Katherine Mansfield -
You should follow your passions, you know? And you should make sure you do something you love. That's all I've learned, is that if you're doing something you love you'll work harder at it and make it happen, I can promise you that.
Tom DeLonge Blink-182 -
A man is entitled to only one great passion in a lifetime. Whether it’s music or a profession or a woman, everything else pales in its afterglow. The searing shock so changes one’s chemistry that if the object is lost, the experience can never be repeated. Only anticlimax remains.
Jack McDevitt