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• The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Down

• I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Look
  • Pictures
  • Twitter

• You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Support
  • Always
  • Might

• I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Career
  • Past
  • Amazing

• We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Good
  • Art
  • Hungry

• When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Sometimes

• People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Me
  • Beauty

• It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.

  

  Walter Kerr
  • Up
  • Time
  • Best

• With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Drama
  • Act
  • Opening

• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Money
  • Passion
  • Destiny

• You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Never
  • Criticism
  • Salt

• You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hair

• The Melvins are grunge.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Grunge

• All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • May
  • Dream

• I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Change
  • Crazy
  • Person

• I have never gotten my nails done.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Done
  • Never
  • Nails

• I'm not that interested in people.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • People
  • Interested

• In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Fear
  • Friendship
  • Partner

• Finding one's voice - or creating a narrative voice that has the power to carry your story - is the hardest part.

  

  Danielle Trussoni
  • Power
  • Creating
  • Hardest

• I've always been very much in control of my music and my image, and I think one of the things I've been lucky about is I didn't bring a label on board until I really figured out who I was.

  

  Dua Lipa
  • Music
  • Control

• There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• I walked until midnight in the storm, then I went home and took a sauna for an hour and a half. It was all clear. I listened to my heart and saw if there were any signs of my destiny in the sky, and there were none - there were just snowflakes.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Destiny

• To achieve responsible budget savings, government must be retooled with an effective spending-control system.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Control