Lauren Willig Quotes
Like everyone else, I grew up loving the Anne books, but L.M. Montgomery is so much more. Like Jane Austen, she has an eye for the absurd and a gift for the 'mot juste.'Lauren Willig
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
Gautam Gambhir -
When I sing, people shut up.
Barbra Streisand -
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Carl Jung -
I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
Damian Lewis -
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
Pablo Neruda -
Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
Zubin Mehta
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
Mae Whitman -
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Dag Hammarskjold -
What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?
Pat Buchanan -
I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
Oscar Niemeyer -
I'm a guy of 92kg. I haven't got the physique of someone who can work back and then sprint up front again throughout a match!
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It was about 2012, 2013. I started from zero. Small fashion shows, small photoshoots. I've seen a lot. I've seen a lot of things up close. I married my sister off; I gave jahez for her wedding. I tried to keep relations going with my family. I bought a house for them in Multan. My parents are settled in Multan; my house is there.
Qandeel Baloch -
In our school, there were lots of bands putting up posters saying 'Come to our gigs'.
Oliver Sim The xx -
We want everybody to be bossed up.
Quavo Migos -
I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.
Ed Westwick -
I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.
Yitzhak Shamir -
Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.
Oscar Nunez
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When I first started on television, people, and even my own manager at the time, would tell me I had to make all of these changes. But you have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you're the one with the problem!' And when you can really believe that, all of a sudden other people start believing, too.
Jennifer Lopez -
It's no new narrative to say that when people get out of child stardom, they oftentimes rebel in very serious ways.
Cole Sprouse -
God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.
Harold Brodkey -
More than anything, I'm proud to say I'm from Saginaw.
Algee Smith -
When you're out of work and you can't buy a home or you've lost your home and you're worried about paying your bills, then you become more worried about what other folks are doing. And sometimes that organizes itself around kind of a tribal attitude, and issues of race become more prominent.
Barack Obama -
Like everyone else, I grew up loving the Anne books, but L.M. Montgomery is so much more. Like Jane Austen, she has an eye for the absurd and a gift for the 'mot juste.'
Lauren Willig