Alison Lurie Quotes
Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.
Alison Lurie
Quotes to Explore
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For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She Loves Me' broadcast, I try to imagine that I am just singing to each individual. It doesn't change my energy other than being perhaps a bit more nervous. I try to sing to each person and right into their individual heart.
Laura Benanti
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My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.
Candace Cameron Bure
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
Irwin Redlener
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They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.
Owen Hart
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There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'
Samira Wiley
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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My mum was into pottery and embroidery, very artistic, and she knew some people from the college, which I think was how I got into it. My dad, who was a head-hunter, was also an incredible artist, and when he was very young, he was a really good cartoonist.
Jamie Hewlett
Gorillaz
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I'm part of the generation that grew up with great rappers like 2Pac and Biggie and people like Amy Winehouse. We've seen a lot of different artists come and go. Even people who are still here, they seem consumed and blinded by fame. It may not have taken them out physically, but they have been taken out.
Anderson Paak
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I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people.
Alan Bates
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I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.
Gao Xingjian
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Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.
John Niven
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Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.
Alison Lurie