Eleanor Friedberger Quotes
Not that I feel like I have a lack of confidence, it's just good to stand up in front of people who don't really know what to expect. Am I going to say something? Am I going to sing? And often when I do say anything it gets a laugh, because everyone's already used to laughing. So I can seem like I'm actually a funny person.
Eleanor Friedberger
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
Harold MacMillan
I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
W. Richard Stevens
Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
Rachel Kushner
People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
Salman Rushdie
I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
Felix Baumgartner
My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
Harrison Birtwistle
I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all.
Samantha Mumba
The mismanagement of the Small Business Health Options program is very frustrating.
Sam Graves
When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
Abigail Disney
When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.
Patrick deWitt
I'm really comfortable with myself.
Kat Dennings
