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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The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.
Laura Lippman -
Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it.
Leo Durocher -
I always tell people there's only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money to read. It doesn't have to be very good, necessarily, but somebody, somewhere, has got to be willing to pay money for it.
Bill Bryson -
Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
Doris Kearns Goodwin -
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