Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
Natasha Trethewey -
Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
T. J. Miller -
I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
Natalie Jeremijenko -
I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
Taylor Schilling -
The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
Damien Rice
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
Sallust -
Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
Mahershala Ali -
If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
Floyd Skloot -
The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
Farrah Fawcett -
Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
T. J. Miller
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
Tasha Smith -
I eat a lot of chocolate.
Manolo Blahnik -
No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
Nathan Fillion -
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
Abraham Verghese -
I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
Men are every bit as gendered as women.
Jackson Katz
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
Ted Danson -
The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
Oliver E. Williamson -
It seemed to me that NASA, especially Goddard, was the place where I could carry out the dreams that I had, which were to push forward an experiment that would measure the big bang radiation better than anyone had ever tried before. Therefore, it seemed like the perfect place to go.
John C. Mather -
Never be late. When you're late, what you're saying is that your time is more important than the other person's time. That's pretty egotistical.
Alice Cooper -
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
Leo Tolstoy