Laurie Graham Quotes
My husband is stricken with dementia, and it's a trick of his condition that events and people from his past are more real to him than what happened five minutes ago.Laurie Graham
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
Rachel Joyce -
I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
Otis Redding -
Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
Hailey Gates -
As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
Vince Vaughn -
London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
Lapo Elkann -
I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
Naturi Naughton 3LW
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
Taylor Schilling -
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
Irving Babbitt -
Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.
Adam Hamilton -
People vote with their hearts, not their heads.
Irene Rosenfeld -
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 -
There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.
Rachel Bloom -
I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.
Eddie Marsan -
Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.
Irvine Welsh -
Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.
Val Kilmer -
Square meals often make round people.
E. Joseph Cossman -
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I would just encourage people: your childhood belongs to you, and don't give anyone, especially me, the power to ruin your childhood.
Colin Trevorrow -
If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.
Dean Koontz -
I have a hard time listening to things I've recorded. I don't necessarily go back and enjoy it. Occasionally I'll have the iPod on shuffle and something will come on. Nine times out of ten I'll wince and go on to the next one.
Brian d'Arcy James -
He sometimes tells himself that there is nothing more to be said, simply because he won’t get around to saying it.-How contemptible!
Elias Canetti -
But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.
C. S. Lewis -
My husband is stricken with dementia, and it's a trick of his condition that events and people from his past are more real to him than what happened five minutes ago.
Laurie Graham