Meshell Ndegeocello Quotes

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Recitation: by Male by Female

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ChildrenOptimismSimplicityWish

My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy.

Joe Lando

HonestGuyStraightReallyDad

Writing careers are short. For every 100 writers, 99 never get published. Of those who do, only one in every hundred gets a career out of it, so I count myself as immensely privileged.

Jim Crace

MyselfWritingShortCareerNever

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

John Dryden

ArgumentWordBlowTis

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do anything.

Mayer Hawthorne

DayBreakfastImportantMealMost

So what 'Twilight' does is show how women/girls can drive box office and they can support a tent pole movie. They're an extremely passionate fan base. This coincided with the 13 year old boys starting to stay home and play video games and work on their home media stuff. They're no longer going to theaters in droves.

Melissa Rosenberg

WorkHomeSupportVideo GamesDrive

I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston.

John Logan

LovePowerJohnFellOrson Welles

Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.

Ama Ata Aidoo

PeopleEasyGuiltyMeetingYoung

I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.

Rob Lowe

PoliticsWinnerOldAlwaysYears

I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

Rosemary Clooney

SayingRock And RollRememberWeek

Do you know who I would love to play? Morticia Addams - then I could use all that darkness to be funny.

Monica Bellucci

FunnyLoveDarknessYouPlayKnow

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

Jorge Amado

ChangeTodayTimeBelieveWrite

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain.

Philip Pullman

LoveBeautifulEyesMenPainBrave

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