Cheryl Mendelson Quotes

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

Cheryl Mendelson

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When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material.

Andrew Haigh

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The people inside the company are the people who define GE, not the people outside the company.

John L. Flannery

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I went to college and did advanced electronical engineering, not really knowing what I wanted to do. It bored me to death, so I dropped out.

Michael Bisping

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I have a great amount of respect for life, and I always think that no matter how bad situations get, you can always make something out of it.

Amanda Knox

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The wastefulness of indiscriminate plunder impoverishes a country, while it adds nothing to the support of the army; policy, as well as humanity to the inhabitants, dictates that all levies should be made according to established rules, and under the charge of discreet and competent officers.

Ambrose Burnside

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Take my gay-hairdresser routine. You'll let your hairdresser say things to you that you wouldn't let your parents say. My hairdresser will say the funniest things, so I asked him if I could put him in my routine - you know, make fun of him in a good way. He said, 'Oh, mention my name, mention my name!'

Sinbad

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I want to create a collection, almost like a trilogy of sorts. Whereas 'Milk and Honey' was very much like holding a mirror up to yourself, the second book is turning that mirror around and fixing it on the world. The book is a reflection of the times we are in.

Rupi Kaur

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Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

Mohsin Hamid

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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Lucille Ball

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The center of all my enjoyments is the home wherein are my wife and children, and I have no wish to wander out from that home in pursuit of any pleasures that the world presents.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

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If you judge, investigate.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.

Desi Arnaz

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