Debra Hamel Quotes
My book review site and first blog, which I started in 2003. I started it because I was lamenting that while I read so much, I could hardly remember any of it. People would ask me what good books I'd read recently, or what I thought of a particular book, and my mind would go blank. At the same time, I'd just heard of blogging and found the idea interesting and thought I'd give it a try.Debra Hamel
Quotes to Explore
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
Karen Salmansohn -
I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
Flume -
I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
Oliver Reed -
I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
Ralph Bakshi -
Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
R. L. Stine -
Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
Edmund Waller
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I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan Institute after college and studied meditation, which made an enormous difference.
Maggie Rowe -
When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
Hallie Ephron -
Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.
Wendy Davis -
I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour.
Magnus Scheving -
It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.
Idi Amin -
I have beautiful, beautiful clothes, designed by my bachelor boy son, Kenny. Kenny has a big following as it is, and even Lady Gaga has asked Kenny to design dresses for her. But Kenny isn't very keen on, well, shall we say, extreme women. He likes someone that women all over the world can identify with.
Barry Humphries
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I had no idea what those cords were in the bridge of 'Prisoner In Disguise' when I wrote them. I had to go over to Don Gorman, the piano player, and ask what in the world I was playing.
J. D. Souther -
Is all the world jails and churches?
Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine -
As I was telling my husb- As I was telling President Bush.
Condoleezza Rice -
The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.
Bertrand Russell -
The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious.
Logic -
Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.
Andrew Davies
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I was always obsessed with being a writer of some sort.
David Droga -
My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
How pleasant it is to respect people! When I see books, I am not concerned with how the authors loved or played cards; I see only their marvelous works.
Anton Chekhov -
People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?
Ric Ocasek The Cars -
The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe something. What we should realize is we know almost nothing about God and therefore we should be eager to search and to learn.
John Templeton -
My book review site and first blog, which I started in 2003. I started it because I was lamenting that while I read so much, I could hardly remember any of it. People would ask me what good books I'd read recently, or what I thought of a particular book, and my mind would go blank. At the same time, I'd just heard of blogging and found the idea interesting and thought I'd give it a try.
Debra Hamel