Berlie Doherty Quotes
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
Baz Luhrmann -
I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
Caitlin Doughty -
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
Umberto Eco -
Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
Jaclyn Smith -
I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
Taron Egerton -
But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did, I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.
Larry Hagman
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
Tamara Tunie -
I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
Laura Haddock -
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
Adam Lambert -
I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
Fiona Shaw -
I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
Ian Mckellen -
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
Tariq Ramadan -
Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.
Tavi Gevinson -
The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.
Rabbit Maranville -
Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
E. L. Doctorow -
If you declare Crocker's Rules, other people don't need to worry about being tactful to you. (You still need to worry about being tactful to them - Crocker's Rules only work one way.)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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I do a lot of traveling overseas.
Jeb Bush -
Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.
David A. Bednar -
God is to me the Great Unknown. I believe in Him, but I find Him not.
Adoniram Judson -
Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
Ban Ki-moon -
As long as I'm able to write across the media and across the age groups, I'm happy.
Berlie Doherty