Anne McCaffrey Quotes
That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.Anne McCaffrey
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
Jackson Rathbone -
I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
Nargis Fakhri -
As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
Karen Mills -
These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
Bar Refaeli -
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
S. E. Hinton -
I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
M. Night Shyamalan
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
Jack Youngblood -
I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
J. B. Smoove -
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson -
People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
Felix Dennis -
There's no regrets for me.
Adam Lambert -
If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
Naomi Wolf -
I'm not a one-issue person.
Barbara Bush -
I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
Randeep Hooda -
I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.
Paloma Faith -
I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
Utah Phillips -
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
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And you probably remember all of those papers and documents that they had published in the newspapers. And, you know, when you look at that, it really was their own little jihad that they had going. It just wasn't taken very seriously then.
Patty Hearst -
I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had.
Uri Geller -
I write to escape from my life. Writing about men separates 'me' from my work in a way that I find comforting.
Jennifer Egan -
'Triumph over tragedy' - how pathetic! I think people are generally freaked out that I'm multifaceted. You don't hear people saying, 'Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar - and she's blonde!'
Aimee Mullins -
What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic
Queen Victoria -
That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
Anne McCaffrey