Lurlene McDaniel Quotes
Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
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After hearing that he has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Putin said, 'Tell me who the other nominees are - and I will eliminate them.'
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I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks.
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There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be true to his own vision, not to be some sort of common denominator or public relations man to all gay people.
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I read the art reviews of my work. Some critics understand my art correctly, while some don't. I simply ignore the reviews written by the latter.
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Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.
