Alison McGhee Quotes

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.'

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• Surprise is key in all art.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
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• I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.

  

  Harmony Korine
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• I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.

  

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• I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

  

  Malcolm X
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• There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.

  

  Olivia Culpo
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• A girl's best friend is her pride.

  

  Vanity
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• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  

  Origen
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• I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.

  

  Yuna
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• One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Wish
  • Try
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• When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• I love cars, but I love bikes more.

  

  Candace Kita
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• Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Good
  • Society
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• I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

  

  Yang Lan
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• Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
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• An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
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• College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
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• 'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

  

  Plautus

• My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.

  

  David Mixner
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• In entertainment, I adore Ricky Gervais in 'Derek.' His performance is unbelievably charming, funny and poignant. In life, I adore my girlfriend. She is the most adorable person I have ever met - from her silly jokes to her cute teeth to her little drawings.

  

  Josh Zuckerman
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• Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose.

  

  Jeffrey Jones
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• Constantly writing with new people is important. Also, listening to new music that's popular and that's making a splash - that's how I get motivated.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
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• It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.'

  

  Alison McGhee
  • Cool
  • Cute