Anita Loos Quotes

The wrong side of the tracks is livelier.

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• No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • War
  • Car

• My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about science and ran a grocery store in the neighborhood with my mother's help.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Help
  • Mother
  • Father

• Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Down
  • Trees
  • Graceful

• Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Real
  • Nature

• Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Sometimes
  • Win
  • Fight

• Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Good
  • Think
  • Discipline

• If you knew Peggy Sue - then you'd know why I feel blueWithout Peggy - my Peggy Sue.Oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue.Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue - oh how my heart yearns for you.Oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue.Oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue.

  

  Buddy Holly
  • Heart
  • Why

• It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Value

• I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Why
  • Want
  • Imagination

• The NBA definitely has some trendsetters that stay up on the latest fashion, but I think you're starting to see guys like myself and others get some much-deserved respect in the style department.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Fashion

• Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Women
  • Book
  • American

• We have to work together. We have to support each other. When we hear about a wonderful woman, we have to tell other women about her. Help her, prop her up. Give her what she needs. That's a big lesson.

  

  Kamala Lopez
  • Up
  • Work
  • Women

• Ever since the invention of the camera, people have been trying to create 3D, because we see things in 3D, and everyone's aware that the camera doesn't.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Cameras

• I got us off to a bad start from the beginning of the game. The magnitude of the game and being in so many games like that, for me to be the one to act like I had never been in a game like that is unacceptable. I fully take responsibility for this one.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Bad
  • Game
  • Responsibility

• I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Dying
  • Breathe
  • Oxygen

• We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes the winning and losing, the succeeding and failing, the "I will achieve." All that stuff becomes so preoccupying, particularly if you're born with low self-esteem, or no sense of yourself, or even if you're just born in the consumer culture. It's very powerful.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Winning
  • Failing
  • Track

• I'm most grateful for my health. It's taken me a long time to get where I am, to feel as strong as I do in my mind and in my body. It's through that that I'm able to be present in all my relationships and not get overwhelmed by what could seem like a big task, going all around the world constantly.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• The wrong side of the tracks is livelier.

  

  Anita Loos
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