Loretta Young Quotes
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith -
I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
Aaron Neville -
The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
Fay Godwin -
It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
Samantha Bee -
That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
Walter Jon Williams -
In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
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I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.
Samuel Barber -
It's important that we start conversations about changing the culture of sexual harassment and discrimination in politics, state capitols, and our larger communities with an acknowledgment of the courage of so many women who have chosen to speak up and speak out.
J. B. Pritzker -
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
Edgar Quinet -
I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.
Lady Gaga -
I have some pretty forceful ideas about the world - obviously I do. But I suppose I can only really speak about them from within the protection of a literary form.
Rachel Cusk -
My dad works in insurance; my mom is a speech pathologist. Very Midwestern, adorable childhood.
Laura Harrier
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The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.
Fiona Apple -
And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben,Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows whenThe world was worthy of such men.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Courses even with the sun Doth her mighty brother run.
Ben Jonson -
Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
And she waited again at the front door with it open, poised between the maw of the dead and loveless house and the outer dark like a frail thief.
Cormac McCarthy
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Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.
Seneca the Younger -
It's funny - when you look at the real A-listers nowadays, look at how many live in and around Hollywood. Most of them live on a ranch in Utah. It's no coincidence these guys get in and get out.
Darren Boyd -
Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.
Kathleen McDonald -
I don't yearn to be a child again.
Loretta Young