Libby Trickett Quotes
That's pretty rewarding in itself coming from where I started. Obviously the next goal for me is to make the Olympic team.Libby Trickett
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
Rachel Kushner -
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
Ted Turner -
I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
Kate Burton -
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
Jack Vance -
What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
Octavia Spencer -
As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
Gail Carson Levine
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
Umberto Eco -
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
Barry Hannah -
The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
M. Stanton Evans -
I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
Nancy Cartwright -
I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
Abby Wambach
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
Lafcadio Hearn -
We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
Omari Hardwick -
I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
Earl Weaver -
Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
Fidel Castro -
I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I was finding the whole situation funny because I was speaking to his profile.
Madeleine Stowe
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Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can't see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off.
Gail Collins -
I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I'd fail at all these different professions.
Jeffrey Zeldman -
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
Jack Nicklaus -
I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It was a very free upbringing, and I'm grateful to my parents for that.
Amanda Burton -
I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.
Bruno Mars -
That's pretty rewarding in itself coming from where I started. Obviously the next goal for me is to make the Olympic team.
Libby Trickett