Augusten Burroughs Quotes
I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.Augusten Burroughs
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
Hanna Rosin -
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Barbra Streisand -
I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Gary Player -
I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
Famke Janssen -
Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
Osric Chau
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I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
Ford Frick -
Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
Laetitia Casta -
Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
Adam Driver -
Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
Edmund White -
I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
Harold Budd -
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
Eckhart Tolle
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
Olivia Wilde -
Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
Irwin Redlener -
I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.
Uday Kotak -
Art is more engaging that propaganda.
Larry Norman -
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden -
Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.
Matt Taibbi -
I'm not saying I only want to work with female directors. But I want to continue to work with emerging female directors.
Bel Powley -
Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.
John C. Maxwell -
There was a time when I was offered two episodes of 'Alias,' that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN 'Second Time Around.' It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.
Ian Anthony Dale -
It's awesome to be running down the field, and your brother is next to you. We get to block together sometimes, and it's fun to put a guy on his back together.
Chris Gronkowski -
I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.
Augusten Burroughs