M. F. K. Fisher Quotes
Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay eggs where before he spent his sexual energies in being exceptionally masculine.M. F. K. Fisher
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
Hailee Steinfeld -
The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
Frances Beinecke -
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
Edgard Varese -
Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
Patricia Riggen -
Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
Pat Buchanan -
I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
Jacki Weaver
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
Gaston Caperton -
Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
Dana Goodyear -
Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
Walter Winchell -
I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'
Imelda May -
I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
Jack Kerouac
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. White -
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
W. E. B. Du Bois -
When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
Ian Hart -
I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
Taylor Swift -
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus -
I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
Rand Paul
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I built a company, a team, and a brand that started right here. It was an American success story, and it started right here in Arizona.
Doug Ducey -
I like working with women who own their own power.
Marilyn Minter -
Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay eggs where before he spent his sexual energies in being exceptionally masculine.
M. F. K. Fisher