Alexandra Bracken Quotes
Everything in New York is a fight. It's a fight to get on the subway. It's a fight to go to CVS. It's a fight to get a cab. And eventually, it wears you down.Alexandra Bracken
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
Aaron Klug -
I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
Dan Gilbert -
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
N. K. Jemisin -
The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
Yehuda Berg
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I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
Eartha Kitt -
I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
Zac Efron -
Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
Barry Eisler -
Paris is an unsolved puzzle. She inspires me in a way that other places don't. And she demands more of me. Just try to write about her without bumping into cliche after cliche.
M. J. Rose -
Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. King -
For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
Natalie Dormer
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There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'
Samira Wiley -
My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone.
Natalie Dormer -
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
Napoleon Hill -
I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.
Rachel Kushner -
My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
Patrick deWitt
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I want to sing for the broadest possible audience.
Mel Torme -
Of course, from time to time, I want to do everything myself and be more involved on my own with the creative process. But I don't mind the collaboration at all.
Michel Gondry -
You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.
Dave Winfield -
Everything in New York is a fight. It's a fight to get on the subway. It's a fight to go to CVS. It's a fight to get a cab. And eventually, it wears you down.
Alexandra Bracken