William Maxwell Quotes
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).William Maxwell
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
Tamra Davis -
You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
Oscar Isaac -
When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
Dak Prescott -
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
H. L. Mencken -
Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
Dag Hammarskjold -
This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Ian Fleming
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My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
Victoria Justice -
There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I believe in my writing.
Barry Manilow -
'Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.
Bernardo Bertolucci -
The only club that could lure me away from Dortmund is Real Madrid.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang -
One thing my mother did is that she never looked in the mirror and said, 'I'm so fat,'or 'I'm so ugly. I need to go on a diet.' Projecting that onto yourself is only going to make your daughter or son think that of themselves. Because they're a product of you.
Ashley Graham
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I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.
Ben Barnes -
Cats, it turns out, are even less fond of being dunked in water than Shitsus.
Penny Junor -
You cannot make a teenage idol.
David Cassidy -
Without a sense of humor, I would have been gone a long time ago.
Patty Duke -
The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.
Daphne Zuniga -
Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't often make up a writer's main body of work, and that's not because they don't see the market for it.
James Lasdun
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My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't believe 'The War of the Worlds' or 'The Time Machine' have ever been bettered. Plus, I have always had a liking for Victorian and Edwardian clothes and contraptions, which tends to color the worlds I dream up.
Philip Reeve -
Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.
Katherine Paterson -
Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.
Kelly Clarkson -
Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.
Lisa See -
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).
William Maxwell