Charlaine Harris Quotes

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

Charlaine Harris

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• Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Time
  • Money
  • Parents

• Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Today
  • Relationship
  • Fashion

• Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Party
  • Too Much

• Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Why
  • Often
  • Flaws

• I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Water
  • Blossom
  • Orange

• Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Perfect
  • Desire
  • Universe

• I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • You
  • Trust
  • Just

• Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Become
  • Poison

• You have to make enough noise to be cast in the right films, and the best way to make that noise is to do lots of good work.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Good
  • Work
  • Best

• I basically raised myself.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Myself
  • Raised
  • Basically

• Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Yourself
  • Doing
  • Excuses

• I had gross morning sickness til about 15 weeks and then gestational diabetes, and most annoyingly, from about week 20, I had pelvis issues, which saw me on crutches for the last five weeks of the pregnancy and has since developed into full-blown Osteitis Pubis and pelvic instability.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Me
  • Morning
  • Pregnancy

• I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Up
  • Power
  • Think

• You've got these big studio films and these tiny independent films now. It's very much either/or. With the independent films, it's always a beautiful risk - it might never be seen. With the studio films, you're conforming to the formula of what's always been in place.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Beautiful
  • Risk
  • Independent

• I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • School
  • Well
  • Academic

• Who o'er the herd would wish to reign,Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain!Vain as the leaf upon the stream,And fickle as a changeful dream;Fantastic as a woman's mood,And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood.Thou many-headed monster thing,Oh who would wish to be thy king!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Dream
  • Wish
  • King

• Hopeless of all he dared to hope so long, The music born within him dies away; Even the song he loved becomes a pain, Full-freighted with a yearning all in vain.

  

  Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Music
  • Long
  • Hope

• Every film requires a different process. You learn about these particular actors and the particular chemistry between these actors. Recognizing when you don't need to shoot a scene because it's going to be cut anyway.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Different

• I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.

  

  Ric Ocasek The Cars
  • People
  • Up
  • Words

• The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Character
  • Moral
  • Parent

• When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.

  

  Joe Simon
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Book

• I won coach of the year at the ESPYs, but I didn't go to ESPYs. That's not me. I don't want the attention.

  

  Tyronn Lue
  • Attention

• If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

  

  Charlaine Harris