Oscar Hijuelos Quotes
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.Oscar Hijuelos
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
Patrick Kane -
When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
Lance Burton -
Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
Haniel Long -
I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
Hans Vestberg -
Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
Mamata Banerjee -
Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
Ted Cruz
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
Gavin Newsom -
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
Naomi Campbell -
Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
T. J. Miller -
I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
Taylor Swift -
Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
Cameron Mackintosh
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The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
Barbara Olson -
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals -
When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
T. D. Jakes -
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes -
Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
Flume -
But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
Oscar Robertson
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I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, 'I'm on fire, I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work.
David O. Russell -
I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire.
John Edward -
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Barack Obama -
When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.
Dita Von Teese -
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
Oscar Hijuelos