Alannah Myles Quotes

Make sure you love what you do or it will eat you alive.

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• I'm not a very technical musician at all.

  

  Washed Out
  • Musician
  • Very
  • Technical

• My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Day

• Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Inside
  • Sides
  • Ridiculous

• In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Life
  • Way
  • Me

• I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Music
  • Think
  • Questions

• I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Writing
  • History
  • English

• My favorite part of designing bridal is that I will be a part of the most important day in a woman's life. My work needs to make her feel sophisticated, glamorous, sexy, and comfortable.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Words
  • Nothing
  • Equal

• Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Thinking
  • Style
  • Cute

• I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • People
  • Intelligent
  • Hobby

• Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath.

  

  Laird Barron
  • God
  • Mom
  • Fire

• Our platform is a one-stop shop, from marketing and promotion through to ticketing. But even in the early days, in 2006-07, when we were mostly carrying shortform video, we became the premier movie marketing platform.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Movie
  • Stop
  • Marketing

• I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Myself
  • Grow
  • Plants

• I have always been infatuated with country music.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Country
  • Always

• The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Day
  • Always
  • Diet

• Eddie Alvarez, man, he's a tough guy.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Tough

• Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Time
  • You
  • Always

• Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Good
  • Love
  • Food

• Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Science
  • Sea
  • Green

• Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of most accurate misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.

  

  Gene Littler
  • Great
  • Mistakes
  • Accurate

• The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Time
  • Become
  • Discouraged

• Make sure you love what you do or it will eat you alive.

  

  Alannah Myles