Arabella Weir Quotes
Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.Arabella Weir
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
Rachel Kushner -
The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
Victor Garber -
I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
Octavia Spencer -
I'm a man without a corporation.
Paddy Chayefsky -
The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
Iain Sinclair -
My mum was a dancer. She would tour the world with a group, and she had me in a dance class when I was still in a nappy. They told her to come back when I could walk.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.
Yami Gautam -
Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
Dan Brown -
The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.
Pat Buckley -
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The pageant movie I'm obsessed with is 'Miss Congeniality', hands down! I could quote everything from that movie. I love so many scenes, but I always find myself quoting the scene when Sandra Bullock goes, 'I really do just want world peace!'
Olivia Culpo -
I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.
Fantasia Barrino
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My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
Ed Case -
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke -
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
Madame de Stael -
Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.
Gaines Adams -
You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
Wangari Maathai -
I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.
Sam Hunt
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The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
Davy Crockett -
Critics often point to historical issues such as slavery, upon which many Christians did act inconsistently, in an effort to invalidate Christian participation in contemporary social issues.
H. Wayne House -
It's like — I don't know, sometimes it's like chasing a pretty girl on the beach. And things I never thought I could do... I can do.
Ryan Adams -
I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.
Cliff Martinez -
The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.
Madeleine Albright -
Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.
Arabella Weir