Astrid Lindgren Quotes
I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.Astrid Lindgren
Quotes to Explore
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
Taylor Sheridan -
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Zora Neale Hurston -
Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
Ma Jian -
For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
Fedor Emelianenko -
I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
Laura Mennell -
I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.
Rafael Nadal
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
Damien Hirst -
Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
Laura Robson -
I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
Malcolm McDowell -
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Mahalia Jackson -
My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
Gabriel Mann -
Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
Ralph Merkle
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
Taye Diggs -
Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.
LaDainian Tomlinson -
If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
Rachel Johnson -
In the end, crime doesn't pay.
Lane Garrison -
I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
Jack Kingston -
I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.
Kate Moss
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot -
Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our children.
Gavin Newsom -
The next step is for the great teachers to arise, and for them to clearly understand the challenges ahead and mentor accordingly. Where most generations focus the education of their children on preparing to make a living or succeed financially, leadership generations are taught by parents who see a higher role for their children.
Oliver DeMille -
The adult public's taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the solution implies too vast a departure from what they have been conditioned into accepting as the norm.
Raymond Loewy -
I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.
Astrid Lindgren