Patricia Riggen Quotes
I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.Patricia Riggen
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
Oscar Niemeyer -
I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
L'Wren Scott -
My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
Jack Davenport -
The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.
Karen Bender -
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
Hannah Arendt -
I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
Samira Wiley
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
V. S. Naipaul -
We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
Tamae Watanabe -
Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
Edgar Ramirez -
We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd do.' Even though he's an alien, he's more relatable, more human.
Zack Snyder -
In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
Maggie Stiefvater -
'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
Nancy Werlin
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
Abu Bakr -
Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
Natasha Leggero -
I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.
Tatiana Maslany -
India should be an exporter of technology.
Kapil Sibal -
The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
Katha Pollitt -
Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
Karen Joy Fowler
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I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.
Zoe Wanamaker -
Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand.
Ellwood Patterson Cubberley -
I look forward to working with Mike and the AT&T Broadband team to achieve the full potential of this tremendous new company,
J. M. Roberts -
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
Billy Joel -
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
George Washington -
I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
Patricia Riggen