Armistead Maupin Quotes
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It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
Gaines Adams -
For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
Malcolm Gladwell -
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
P. J. O'Rourke -
A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
Sam Trammell -
There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
Barbara Palvin -
Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
Rachel Kushner
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
Captain Beefheart -
I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
Tallulah Bankhead -
It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
Carine Roitfeld -
I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.
Vanilla Ice -
Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
Ted Dekker
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The 'Kickin' It' set is so much fun, I find myself in a new adventure every week. I work with an amazing cast and crew.
Olivia Holt -
I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
Dan Stevens -
I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.
Yann Martel -
I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.
Manolo Blahnik -
I'm a proud Welshman.
Gareth Bale -
I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.
Tabatha Coffey
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I don't want to attach myself to everything.
Fabolous -
I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.
Judy Chicago -
I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.
Ewan McGregor -
Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.
Claude Levi-Strauss -
Being in love is the only transcendent experience.
Armistead Maupin