Michelle Dean Quotes

It is no secret, of course, that people have strong feelings about fat - feelings that seem only to have been inflamed by the sense, in western countries, that there is an obesity crisis afoot. Concerns about health have mutated into a kind of panic attending any mention of fat people at all.

Michelle Dean

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HealthPeopleStrongFatFeelings

Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.

Joan Didion

GoodWalkListeningSomeoneYouBad

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

Jerry Rice

FootballPressurePlayingUsed

Social media is my portal into the rest of the world - my periscope into the communities next to my community, into how the rest of the world thinks and feels.

Jenna Wortham

CommunitySocial MediaWorldRest

I'm always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected by the President's plan have not been invited to the discussion.

Mel Watt

HappyPlanPresidentDiscussionBeen

So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.

Ang Lee

BeautifulThinkYouSeeAwkward

My dream is to fight at Goodison Park. Forget Wembley, or Vegas, I just want to fight at Goodison Park. It's been a dream ever since I was a child; no one's ever done it.

Tony Bellew

FightChildVegasDreamDoneForget

People watch the Olympics because they want to believe in heroes; I know I did.

Mikaela Shiffrin

PeopleBelieveKnowWantHeroesDid

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

Joss Whedon

RealityTouchOutWriters

I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over here, and I think it's just terrific. There's so much great stuff: diverse and wonderful music, good performances, great looking girls, great videos, the whole thing.

Debbie Harry

GoodMusicMorningGreatLooking

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.

Clark Gable

LoveGirlDatingYouExtraLike

There are a lot of people in D.C. who have never been on Twitter or Facebook and don't get what's happening.

Anne Wojcicki

PeopleNeverFacebookGetBeenWho

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

Anne Lamott

GoodMotherHopeTimeCuteMe

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