Allison Pearson Quotes

Sometimes it's a relief just to focus on putting one foot in front of the other.

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• I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Like
  • Try
  • Just

• I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Kind

• I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Employ
  • Nobel

• My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Job
  • Desire
  • Artist

• I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Eye

• It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's like someone is saying, 'Yes, you're beautiful! Yes, you're doing fine!' But I feel like a child when I'm an actress.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Good
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Children
  • Future
  • Education

• Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Country
  • Art
  • Parents

• I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Politics
  • Start

• Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Good
  • Technology
  • Always

• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • World
  • Job
  • First

• I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • True
  • Think

• I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love 'Locke & Key.' I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like 'Transformers' and 'Ghostbusters.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Time
  • Existence
  • Favorite

• My life is studded with a series of coincidences.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Series

• I think that I've had a very strange life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Think
  • Strange

• The morality of a society is not judged by the behaviour of an oppressed class but by the rules and laws made by the state, which either protect or exploit an already depressed section of society.

  

  Asma Jahangir
  • Society

• In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school.

  

  Alexandra Robbins
  • School
  • Law
  • Princeton

• There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn't how we've approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Different
  • Focus
  • Deep

• In the 21st century, government efforts should focus on 'multiculturalism', including the diversity of languages.

  

  Eduardo Bhatia
  • Focus
  • Diversity

• Sometimes it's a relief just to focus on putting one foot in front of the other.

  

  Allison Pearson
  • Focus