Anita Shreve Quotes
A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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Test cricket is a different sort of cricket altogether. Some players who are good for one-day cricket may be a handicap in a Test match.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
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I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
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If you could draw a picture of the best high school in the world - where all the teachers are wonderful and all the classrooms are beautiful, it would be my high school.
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You become what you believe.
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A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.
