Geraldine Brooks Quotes

She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.

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• I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Like
  • Sports
  • Dirty

• Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fun
  • High
  • Like

• For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.

  

  Lance Gross
  • You
  • Like
  • Person

• What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Stage

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
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  • Too Much

• I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

  

  Sam Riley
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  • Show

• I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.

  

  Pat Benatar
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  • Pushing

• Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
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• People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Life
  • Moments

• There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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• Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
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• I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that.

  

  Naomie Harris
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• I like to challenge myself.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
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• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • Future
  • Pain

• I liked 'Star Wars,' but I wasn't an uberfan like many people are.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
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  • Star

• Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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  • Anonymity
  • Umbrella

• I'm from San Bernardino, California. It's, like, all cows and dairies and very open.

  

  Cameron Dallas
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  • California
  • Open

• The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Universe
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  • Justice

• Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Sweet
  • Feet
  • Pet

• I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't really care. I'm just having fun, doing something I love and getting paid for it. How cool is that?

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Cool

• I believe that God wants us to show respect.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Respect

• I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.

  

  George Stevens
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  • Turned
  • Scandal

• She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.

  

  Geraldine Brooks
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