Alistair Cooke Quotes
Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.Alistair Cooke
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
Barbara Smith -
If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
Abbey Clancy -
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Manuel Puig -
I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
Danica McKellar -
I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
Zach Galifianakis -
You just can't control your art in the future.
Damian Loeb
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
B. B. King -
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
Sachin Tendulkar -
I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
Fashion anticipates.
Oleg Cassini -
Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
Talulah Riley -
I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
Cara Delevingne
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
Barbara Jordan -
I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
Barbara Kruger -
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Warren Beatty -
The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
Vincent Bugliosi -
I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
Patrick deWitt -
An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
Maeve Binchy
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A flock is nothing but the put-together of all your past choices.
Barbara Kingsolver -
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C. S. Lewis -
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon Hill -
It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.
Agnetha Faltskog -
Being on set is really hard because there's craft service.
Marissa Jaret Winokur -
Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.
Alistair Cooke