Augusten Burroughs Quotes

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

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• Good things happen when you meet strangers.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • You
  • Good Things

• For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Deep
  • Child
  • Curiosity

• The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Person
  • Cry
  • Only

• We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Family
  • Human
  • Unity

• It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Fun
  • Day
  • One Day

• To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Pretty
  • Winning
  • Unique

• I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Work
  • Today
  • Trust

• For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Time
  • Together

• Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Man
  • Win
  • Puzzle

• Looking back at my career, I wish I knew then what I know now... that gender bias is built into the system, and it's unconscious in many ways. I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more. I was always trying to be a 'good girl' and play by the rules.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Career

• Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Country
  • Control
  • Fly

• Good asparagus needs minimal treatment and is best eaten with few other ingredients.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Best
  • Needs

• I always wanted to do a 'Ms. Smith Goes to Washington.'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Washington

• That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Dark

• Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Great
  • Exist
  • Pop

• It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Victim
  • Press
  • Unfortunate

• I don't know about you, but I love going on trips - especially with my family.

  

  Becky G
  • Family
  • Love
  • Know

• To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • World
  • Good
  • Confidence

• I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs, because they'll be done by computers. There'll be the world's best education available online and free.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • People
  • World
  • Done

• Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • People
  • Faith

• Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Poetry
  • Language
  • Human

• Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.

  

  Ana Gasteyer
  • Up
  • Character
  • Preparation

• But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

  

  Augusten Burroughs