Alexandra Fuller Quotes
Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.Alexandra Fuller
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Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
Tatiana Maslany -
It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.
Gail Sheehy -
Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
Vikram Seth -
The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
Nat King Cole -
I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
Kate Winslet -
It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
Damon Albarn Blur
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
Bassem Youssef -
It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.
Patrick Fugit -
People can certainly take pride in the fact that there is a Jewish candidate for president who has received delegates and who has run a terrific campaign and still work hard to ensure we elect Hillary Clinton.
Ted Deutch -
I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.
Uma Thurman -
I'm at the point age-wise where I've decided it's time to pass the baton to people who have several terms in front of them and have the energy and the excitement and the engagement that is necessary to carry it on.
Dan Coats -
Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.
Barbra Streisand
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Personally, I don't wear fur.
Karl Lagerfeld -
The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.
Magnus Scheving -
I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside.
Lady Gaga -
It is, like the Mona Lisa, one of those masterpieces with which you will be outstandingly familiar long before you ever get to see it...it does not disappoint. It does not disappoint the first time you see it, nor the third time, nor even the 30th time...
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
Otherwise it was quiet-that eerie, not-quite-comforting quiet one finds in small towns before dawn.
N. K. Jemisin -
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable.
M. H. Abrams
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Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.
Warren Farrell -
Nobody in this world thinks they're having enough sex. Watch any night on television, or any comedian in a nightclub, and every other joke is about people who aren't getting enough.
David Frankel -
World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.
Herbie Hancock -
Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.
Alexandra Fuller