Diana Ross Quotes
I'm crazy about Diane Von Furstenberg. It's a relationship that's very different; I don't see Diane a lot. So when I saw the article in New York magazine she looked so beautiful and it was talking about her work, too. She set up the interview and it was happening. That's different than someone writing a book about you who you've never met.Diana Ross
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
Dan Colen -
I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.
Parker Posey -
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
E. L. Doctorow -
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
Fannie Lou Hamer -
When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
E. L. Doctorow -
I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
C. S. Forester
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I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.
Banks -
How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
Barry Ritholtz -
I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
Patricia MacLachlan -
I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
Vikram Seth -
I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
Rabih Alameddine
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I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.
Patricia Polacco -
Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
Laura Hillenbrand -
My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.
Ikue Mori -
The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
Zac Hanson Hanson -
I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.
Carly Fiorina
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
Vanessa Hudgens -
Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
Bai Ling -
Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.
Ayelet Zurer -
All is not Gospell that thou doest speake.
John Heywood -
My dad was so much fun growing up.
Abby Elliott -
I'm crazy about Diane Von Furstenberg. It's a relationship that's very different; I don't see Diane a lot. So when I saw the article in New York magazine she looked so beautiful and it was talking about her work, too. She set up the interview and it was happening. That's different than someone writing a book about you who you've never met.
Diana Ross