Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes
What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet-only science would put them on the same tree.Wendelin Van Draanen
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
Harold Brodkey -
Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
Carine Roitfeld -
I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
Sam Neill -
It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Fletcher Knebel -
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton -
I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.
Rafael dos Anjos
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
Carine Roitfeld -
I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.
T. J. Miller -
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
Walter Gropius -
I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.
Rand Paul -
I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
Felix Dennis
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
Taylor Momsen -
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg -
The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.
Pat Paulsen -
I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.
Patricia Ireland -
We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices Americans of every community have made that have helped forge the greatest country our world has ever known.
Tammy Duckworth -
I guess I'm a good manager now. Moreover, I'm loving the concept of donning the producer's hat. It's all very exciting as well as a great learning experience. You're a part of a film right from its conception to its execution, and that's an amazing feeling.
Malaika Arora Khan
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I found my father's Super8mm film camera when I was around eight years old and started shooting with it. I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but that's really where my filmmaking began.
Gabriel Campisi -
Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view.
Chogyam Trungpa -
Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.
Zell Miller -
When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.
Jami Attenberg -
There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.
Joan Chen -
What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet-only science would put them on the same tree.
Wendelin Van Draanen