Louise Penny Quotes

Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.

Louise Penny

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The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample.

John James Audubon

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I'm a conservative - a practicing one. I'm not a talk-about-it one.

Jeb Bush

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Out of drag, I'm a white guy with a guitar, which isn't special. There are a million white guys with guitars. But being a drag queen with a guitar is a lot more commanding.

Trixie Mattel

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I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

Tori Amos

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I like to see photographs: I like to see my family. To me, when I open a basic browser, and it's that very elegant silver simple user interface, I am unhappy. I don't need elegant and silver and simple!

Mitchell Baker

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I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.

Janis Ian

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I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living.

Douglas Coupland

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When I joined the music scene, a lot of big-ticket singers were not getting good work... It was a lean phase.

Arijit Singh

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Most of the time you spend filming a show is time you spend without the cameras on, when you're not acting.

Allison Tolman

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When I was little, I used to watch Disney movies all the time, and it drove me crazy that Cinderella's tights wouldn't gather at her ankle when her foot bent, so I kept trying to make sure that I didn't get those little creases on my ankle because Cinderella didn't have them.

Allison Williams

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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

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I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with.

Sxip Shirey

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