Lev Grossman Quotes
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.Lev Grossman
Quotes to Explore
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
Octavia Spencer -
It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
Adam McKay -
The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.
Hanna Rosin -
So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it.
Aarti Sequeira -
I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
Rachel Platten -
In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
Adam Carolla
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I look a lot like my father and his mother.
Sade Adu -
Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
J. C. Watts -
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
Olympia Brown -
It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.
Ada Yonath -
If someone gets married at 15, they're either dumb or pregnant. I was both.
Carlene Carter -
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. Auden
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I went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical cuisine, a foundation of a lot of other cuisines. That said, it's not the only way to approach a cooking career.
Carla Hall -
I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.
Sam Sheppard -
I'm from Miami, and Diplo is from Fort Lauderdale. We grew up with a lot of Cuban and Haitian friends.
Leighton Paul Walsh -
I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.
Kajol -
For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.
Yves Behar -
I'm about being honest and knowing that people are watching, and they want to know that I'm asking questions that they want the answers to.
Tamron Hall
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I've created tens of thousands of jobs over the years.
Donald Trump -
I was born in Hereford, England, in 1944. We moved when they had an opportunity to get a visa, about 1950. My dad always thought Europe was a bit too small for him. He wanted to see the United States... The typical immigrant story. He wanted a better life for his children, too. He always tried to get the visa, and it didn't come up.
Frank Oz -
Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.
Haile Gebrselassie -
Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.
Ryan Tedder OneRepublic -
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Ann Landers -
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
Lev Grossman