Laurie Graham Quotes
As well as writing novels and doing short-order journalism, I am also the full-time carer of my husband, who has Alzheimer's. Each day feels like a race that must be run.Laurie Graham
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In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.
Gayle Forman -
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
Irwin Shaw -
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
Octavio Paz -
FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
Felix Adler -
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
E. L. Doctorow -
In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
Olivier Theyskens
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
Taylor Negron -
I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
Sally Field -
It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there holding her in my arms for the first time. And that kind of responsibility you feel when you hold a child in your arms.
Dacre Montgomery -
Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
LaToya Jackson -
I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
Ingvar Kamprad -
A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
Barack Obama
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden -
I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
Ted Shackelford -
I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.
Calvin Harris -
When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
Narciso Rodriguez -
A show hosted by a black had never been accepted, so the first time that knob's turned on, people are judging against all they have ever been taught. I may have been the first black in the house.
Flip Wilson -
We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.
Zack Snyder
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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
Sam Walton -
Because my husband, Peter, died young, I've already faced the scariest thing in my life. Now I live out the dreams for both of us.
Bozoma Saint John -
That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them.
Ornette Coleman -
What would happen if an angel appeared before the American president and told him there was no more need for war? Everything would collapse.
Emir Kusturica -
I would love to go to Greece.
Lisa McMann -
As well as writing novels and doing short-order journalism, I am also the full-time carer of my husband, who has Alzheimer's. Each day feels like a race that must be run.
Laurie Graham