Leslie Fiedler Quotes

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

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• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Good
  • School
  • Help

• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Doing
  • Direction
  • Group

• As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Relationships

• I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Great
  • Want
  • Just

• I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Done
  • Always
  • Digital

• Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Choose
  • Abortion

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Need
  • Expectations

• I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.

  

  Yuna
  • Beginning
  • Weird
  • Better

• I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Small
  • Community
  • City

• Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Important
  • Family
  • Energy

• When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • May
  • Process
  • Notes

• I'm not a materialistic person.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Person
  • Materialistic

• Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Done
  • Think
  • Best

• Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Future
  • Earth
  • Day

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Ambition
  • Proceeds

• When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Man
  • Political
  • Building

• I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • People
  • Me
  • Ideas

• Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.

  

  Jay Griffiths
  • Music
  • God
  • Long

• Eventually I'm going to be too old to be on camera, and I've been doing stand-up a long time.

  

  Jen Kirkman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.

  

  Jennie Garth
  • Family
  • Heart
  • History

• His time is forever, everywhere his place.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Time
  • Forever

• The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Work
  • Women
  • Home

• I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

  

  Leslie Fiedler
  • Long