Courtney Milan (Heidi Bond) Quotes

I wasn’t going to be a bit of rubbish just because he discarded me.

Courtney Milan

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• If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.

  

  Victor Koo
  • You
  • Like
  • Feet

• One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Shoes

• How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!

  

  Emile Zola
  • Life
  • Evil
  • Heaven

• I think if you don't expect anything from the world, you'll have a lovely time.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Time
  • World
  • Expect

• There is a business side of the game. You may write about it, we may read about or see it on TV, but it does not affect what is going to happen between those lines.

  

  Brian Dawkins
  • Business
  • Game
  • TV

• Love. The only indestructible thing. The only wealth and the only reality. The only survival. At the end of it all there was nothing else.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Wealth

• Who knows what hellish future lies ahead? ... Actually, I do. I've seen the rehearsals.

  

  Terry Wogan
  • World
  • America
  • Modern

• The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.

  

  Steven Biko
  • Happiness
  • Tension
  • Liberation

• I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Done
  • Think

• It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • You
  • Celebrity
  • Really

• If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wish
  • Act
  • Front

• There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Sorrow
  • Despair
  • Prodigious

• I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone whos busy and has too many children, like my mother.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Mother

• Part of the writer's task is to recognize what he's done, then dive back in and make the connections clearer. I'm a strong believer in getting things right the ninth or tenth time.

  

  David Lubar
  • Strong
  • Connections
  • Believer

• Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Memory

• Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Think
  • Rubbish
  • Universities

• It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Life
  • Habit
  • Rubbish

• So, if you don’t fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost and ashamed - it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.

  

  George Monbiot
  • Identity
  • Supposed
  • Ashamed

• I wasn’t going to be a bit of rubbish just because he discarded me.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Rubbish
  • Discarded