Emily Barton Quotes
It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.Emily Barton
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
Taraji P. Henson -
I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
Taylor Swift -
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
Young Thug -
The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
Adam Grant -
If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
Fatema Mernissi
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
Frances McDormand -
Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
Larry Flynt -
I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
Quincy Jones -
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown -
As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
Salman Rushdie
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The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
Harry A. Blackmun -
People see images now more than they see movies.
Parker Posey -
With 'Kids React,' it started, hilariously enough, by thinking, 'Why, teenage girls seem to love 'Twilight' so much!' We went from wanting to ask them ourselves to coming up with the larger and more universal concept of a bunch of Kids reacting to viral videos.
Rafi Fine -
We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.
Maria Edgeworth -
It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.
Lindsay Duncan -
I feel simultaneously completely vulnerable and made wholly brave by becoming a parent. It has changed the way that I live my life. Because I want to be an example for my son.
Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
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To be in the music industry, to be in any kind of entertainment industry, you really, really have to be passionate about it and love it and persevere, because if that passion isn't there, it's easy to give up. If you really want it, the ambition is there, it'll come. It's definitely harder work than some people think.
Alexandra Chando -
The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I remember being at Weight Watchers at, like, 11 years old and my mom just trying to figure it out for me.
Chrissy Metz -
I know that one day I'm going to die. I want to accomplish as much as I can before I do.
Clarence Clemons -
I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.
Tana French -
It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.
Emily Barton