Sloane Crosley Quotes

Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'

Sloane Crosley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 3, 1978

Topics

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There is an emerging subgenre of British nonfiction in which journalists from 'The Guardian' fearlessly recount their own derring-do in David-and-Goliath battles waged against omnipotent state interests in the pursuit of Big Important Truths.

Jo Becker

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But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

John le Carre

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Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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For me, the good food starts with good product.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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I grew up in a commissioned house in the next suburb over, Mount Abbot. It was a two-bedroom house with me, my brother, and my two sisters. Mum and Dad slept in the lounge, and we didn't have wallpaper.

Sonny Bill Williams

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Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.

Simon Van Booy

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Once in a while there was some TV offer and I'd take it.

Tommy Rettig

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In a bar mitzvah, you do the candle-lighting ceremony with the cake. Every birthday, the cake is the big moment.

Ron Ben-Israel

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Singing background has always been such a precious thing. I'm always going to be excited to sing behind an artist and learn from them.

Judith Hill

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This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen.

Jayma Mays

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People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

Jonathan Carroll

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Doing those costume pictures was wonderful.

Donald O'Connor

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