Kim Edwards Quotes
'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.Kim Edwards
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
J. A. Jance -
I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
Gary Weiss -
The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
Captain Beefheart -
A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
J. Cole -
I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
Laura Ricketts
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
Val Kilmer -
A house is kind of scary.
Laura Dekker -
I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
Natalie Wood -
Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
Danica McKellar -
If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.
Venus Williams -
If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.
Gail Collins
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I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
I have always done work to which my heart says yes.
Yami Gautam -
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Of course, recognising our common humanity is only the beginning of our task. Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead; and if we understand that the challenges we face are shared, and our failure to meet them will hurt us all.
Barack Obama -
Using leverage to cure the problems of too much leverage is not homeopathy, it is denial. The debt crisis is not a temporary problem, it is a structural one. We need rehab.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I want to be a part of bringing people together and sharing that love.
Demetrius Shipp, Jr. -
The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking.
Arthur Godfrey -
The ventures that keep things light and fun, easy to understand, that have a compelling story, a sexy retail product, will have an easier time getting people to rally around them and contribute. A start-up doing something that's difficult to communicate or doesn't offer any kind of retail product will have a tougher go at it.
Jessica Jackley -
I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.
Liz Phair -
'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.
Kim Edwards