Melody Beattie Quotes

We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.

Melody Beattie

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JourneyRichEmotionalPlanetVery

Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

GoodGirlGood GirlBeingMeansLot

My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.

Matthew Macfadyen

RomanticVanityLovelyBeingMarried

Shift work, where the body clock is continuously changed, is really deleterious on many levels - from psychology to physiology.

Michael Rosbash

WorkBodyClockPsychologyWhere

I like it when I can sing half of a verse and throw the mike in some kid's face, and they sing it right back to me.

Mitchel Musso

MeFaceBackI CanRightKid

I hate golf. I do not understand how anyone can enjoy it, much less love it.

Jay Mohr

LoveHateGolfEnjoyUnderstandHow

I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it easier to get into an office to see someone.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

FatherPersonalityManNameSomeone

Steven and I have worked together a lot and I'm far ahead of the curve than most people in knowing what he wants, but he knows far more than I know about what's important for the story. So, most of the changes he will make will involve story changes.

Dennis Muren

TogetherPeopleStoryKnowImportant

I think of it as the lasagna approach to writing because I'm always adding layers. I'll sometimes do it layer by layer, with dialogue, attribution, action, objects in the scene, setting... It can be sometimes that delineated.

Chelsea Cain

WritingActionThinkSometimes

I followed lectures on the history, geography, economy and political organization of Sweden.

Christian de Duve

HistoryOrganizationPoliticalSweden

Around 1969, my family had just bought a house in a lower-middle-class white neighborhood two blocks away from school. Then, all of a sudden, all the white people left the neighborhood and the school.

Courtney B. Vance

FamilySchoolPeopleHouseWhite

Fans want more; they want you to perform in their living room. That's the nature of the beast.

Boy George

NatureYouBeastWantLivingMore

Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

WinningWorldSmallCountrySkills

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