Alexandra Kleeman Quotes
These days, there are times when my academic thinking intervenes in my writing, but it's usually while I'm developing a project and not while I'm writing it.Alexandra Kleeman
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
Ian Beattie -
When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
Zachary Gordon -
I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
Laura Fraser -
I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
Sam Raimi -
In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
Nadia Comaneci -
Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
Nancy Pelosi
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson -
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H. L. Mencken -
Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
J. Paul Getty -
If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
Natasha Lyonne -
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Pat Conroy
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
Abbi Glines -
I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
Lady Gaga -
I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
Jack Whitehall -
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
Jack Horner -
I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
Samuel Barnett
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To play nose tackle in the NFL, you have to be unemployed or crazy. I was unemployed. The other part is still up in the air.
Bob Golic -
The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.
Frans de Waal -
I'm someone who just likes being in my cave and thinking up weird stuff.
Colson Whitehead -
These days, there are times when my academic thinking intervenes in my writing, but it's usually while I'm developing a project and not while I'm writing it.
Alexandra Kleeman