Edith Hahn Beer Quotes
Being sick never worked as an excuse at the asparagus plantation at Osterburg. For example, the pregnant girl wanted to go home. She cried and pleaded. The doctor declared her fit for work. She willfully threw up in the fields every morning. An official from the work department, stuffed into his Nazi uniform, finally gave her permission to leave, but not for home—for Poland.
Edith Hahn Beer
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
Patrick deWitt
Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
Rachel Kushner
It's so important to get your skin to look even, whether it's with a MAC Cosmetics glow, a Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer, or even just a solid foundation. Start off with a good prep and a good primer.
Kat Graham
He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
Garth Davis
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
Carl Orff
Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
Carol Burnett
I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.
Robert Rodriguez
Chingon
I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.
Emily St. John Mandel
I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
Felix Dennis
I'm not like a gay icon or America's gay sweetheart. I'm just America's sweetheart, and I'm just an icon.
Adam Rippon
Being sick never worked as an excuse at the asparagus plantation at Osterburg. For example, the pregnant girl wanted to go home. She cried and pleaded. The doctor declared her fit for work. She willfully threw up in the fields every morning. An official from the work department, stuffed into his Nazi uniform, finally gave her permission to leave, but not for home—for Poland.
Edith Hahn Beer
