Margaret Atwood Quotes
My friends, who are both women, tell me their stories, which cannot be believed and which are true. They are horror stories and they have not happened to me, they have not yet happened to me, they have happened to me but we are detached, we watch our unbelief with horror.Margaret Atwood
Quotes to Explore
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
Katarina Witt -
I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
Gal Gadot -
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
Baz Luhrmann -
I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
Zaha Hadid -
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde -
It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
Naomie Harris
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
Sam Sheppard -
Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
Nate Parker -
Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
Eduardo Chillida -
From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.
Rachel Kushner -
This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
Walter Lang -
Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
Zainab Salbi
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
Barbra Streisand -
There's nothing harder than defining oneself.
Yitzhak Rabin -
I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
Dan Fogelberg -
I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.
Rachel Hunter -
People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
Ban Ki-moon
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I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
Walter Jon Williams -
Women's cooking has always had a big influence on me personally.
Jose Andres -
The only thing I ran into is that I am a wanderlust, as far as travel and adventure. I will go off on any given moment with the family and friends to explore the world. I go around the world once a year. I go to Africa, you know, Russia, wherever... I love it.
John Travolta -
Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed.
Brian Setzer Stray Cats -
I do so play an instrument! I play air! I play the air with my fingers, and I'm in touch with the deepest emotions within. It took me a while to learn that whatever I feel like doing is the right thing. If I want to play an invisible instrument, I will.
Jill Scott -
My friends, who are both women, tell me their stories, which cannot be believed and which are true. They are horror stories and they have not happened to me, they have not yet happened to me, they have happened to me but we are detached, we watch our unbelief with horror.
Margaret Atwood