Carol Anshaw Quotes

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

Carol Anshaw

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• As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Experience
  • Presidential
  • Democrat

• Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Right
  • Spring
  • Determination

• 2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Believe
  • Crazy
  • Same

• America is not the center of the universe.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • America
  • Universe
  • Center

• For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • God
  • Respect

• I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Mind
  • Best
  • Fight

• Lipgloss is my calling!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Calling

• My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Energy
  • Human
  • Instinct

• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Coffee
  • Grandmother
  • Taste

• You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Home
  • Know
  • Events

• I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Marine
  • Recruit
  • San Diego

• If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Never
  • Doing
  • Listen

• MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Good
  • Support

• When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • God
  • Believe
  • Men

• Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Goals

• My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Paint
  • Table
  • Uniform

• The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Like
  • Thing
  • Laughing

• Art seduces, but does not exploit.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Art

• I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Science

• I've never been great at being really analytical about myself.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • Great

• It's insulting when somebody who is not a member of our community feels like they have a great understanding of what it's like to grow up gay in this country.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Up
  • Great
  • Country

• When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Right
  • Wrong

• When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

  

  Carol Anshaw
  • Gay
  • Assumption