Barbie Ferreira Quotes

The lullabies I grew up with were usually Brazilian religious ones, and they still soothe me into sleep.

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• Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Learn

• Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Dream

• My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • God
  • Day
  • Mom

• My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Sister

• The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Try
  • Last
  • Programmer

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Place
  • Start
  • Questions

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Human
  • Look
  • Biology

• If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Athlete

• Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Smart
  • Stubborn

• As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Real
  • Father
  • Like

• I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Long
  • Women

• There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Media
  • Now

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Why
  • Name
  • Hindsight

• I teach a lot of graduate creative writing classes, and on the first day, I like to go around the room and ask everybody what's the last book you've read that you really loved. And all of the women tend to give me chick lit titles. And to me, that's sort of disappointing because it's their only exposure to fiction somehow.

  

  Cristina Henriquez
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Book

• When I joined WKRC, they were very concerned over my ability to ad lib or speak extemporaneously, which was an unknown factor up until that point.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Up
  • Speak
  • Ability

• I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• I was bullied in first grade, and it's definitely not fun. But always tell somebody instead of holding it in. Communicate with people and just say, 'Hey, I'm being bullied. I need help.'

  

  Leo Howard
  • People
  • Help
  • Fun

• The lullabies I grew up with were usually Brazilian religious ones, and they still soothe me into sleep.

  

  Barbie Ferreira
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Religious