Esther M. Friesner Quotes
I kept getting up earlier and earlier, hoping to escape before Ione could catch me. That was how I learned that you can’t get up earlier than a farmer’s wife.
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It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.
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I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
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It was priceless. Being the UFC champion and having my kids in the Octagon, my wife, them holding the belt. That was like a movie.
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One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
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I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.
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Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
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I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a man.
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Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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My wife and I ran through 'Justified' in, like, a day. And that is such a funny, amazing show.
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My wife's a loving, funny, Irish-spirited person, and I'm still surprised at some of the things she says. She makes me laugh every day.
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I coach soccer, and my wife and I are very involved in our kids' lives. Our family is busy with doctor appointments, soccer practice, school, work, travel, vacation... life.
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The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.
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My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people.
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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
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I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.
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You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a women's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
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I hope you guys are up for a fight. I hope you guys are game because I haven’t been putting up with 19 months of airplanes and hotel food and missing my babies and my wife - I didn’t put up for that stuff just to come in second.
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It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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They call Howard University the 'capstone of black education.' Howard was one of the historically black colleges where people want to go and send their children. Both of my grandfathers went through the medical school, and being in D.C., not far from New York City, it was a natural choice for me.
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When you stand for something, you've got to stand for it all the way, not half way.
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I kept getting up earlier and earlier, hoping to escape before Ione could catch me. That was how I learned that you can’t get up earlier than a farmer’s wife.
