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Anna Held Quotes

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.

Anna Held

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: polish
Birth: March 19, 1872 - August 12, 1918

Topics

Women Morning Courage Water I Am

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.

Jerry Pournelle

Future People Look Damn Hard Bring

I came out of my shell in college.

Jenna Marbles

College Out Shell I Came Came

I don't sign contracts for my books.

Andrew Vachss

Contracts Books Sign

Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear - integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies.

Andrew Weil

Health I Am Me Medicine Write Clear

Every race is not perfect; there are obviously a lot of things I can improve on at the end of the race.

Maurice Greene

Not Perfect End Perfect I Can Race

I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.

Michael D. Higgins

Home Heart I Am Back Place Will

Now, people have said that somebody told them that they saw somebody on the railroad bank or saw somebody going over the bank, but no one has ever been able to show any cartridges, any rifle, any pistol, no one has ever found anything other than the evidence about Oswald.

John Sherman Cooper

People Railroad Said Now Anything

Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?

Stephen LaBerge

Life Dreams Your Dreams Sleep You

The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has a book all at the same time. It's like that one year where you're invited to twenty weddings.

Mary H.K. Choi

Age Time New York Book Year You

I got a third-degree ankle sprain practicing long jump. I never fully recovered. That was my first heartbreak. I thought track was going to be something that was going to happen in my life. It never went in the direction I wanted it to, no matter how hard I tried.

Michelle Wolf

Life Direction Thought My Life Long

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

Monica Ali

People Want Always Writer Identify

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

Dee Dee Myers

Education Women Age Children Men