Zooey Deschanel Quotes
There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
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I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.
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Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.
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There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
