Annie Ilonzeh Quotes

I'm not going to have beautiful curves or Kim Kardashian's body. I just have to accept that.

Annie Ilonzeh

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My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off.

Jez Butterworth

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It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

Jhumpa Lahiri

LifeMyselfMeAmericanMy Life

I promise you that during my life, I was more concerned about not letting people down, about doing my part, than I was ever into what it did for me.

Jerry Jones

LifePeopleMeMy LifeDoingYou

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

John Dickey

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A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Sigmund Freud

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I'm very much Israeli and American; I never was tempted to change my name. Some people suggested I should have a different name, and I said absolutely not. That's the name I inherited, and it's meaningful: Israel is on every cake that I present.

Ron Ben-Israel

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The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.

Mary Karr

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In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

Lou Holtz

LifeBestFootballJobEndGolf

One of the successes of Kickstarter is that it takes the guesswork out of greenlighting games. Publishers of larger games have to carefully choose which titles they publish, lest they lose a bunch of money on a quirky game that doesn't sell. Kickstarter is all reward, no risk, since nobody has to pay if the project isn't completely funded.

Jason Schreier

MoneyGameChooseLoseRewardGames

Revathi madam is a legend, and I have seen young actresses set her performance as a benchmark.

Dhanush

PerformanceLegendYoungSeenHer

There's a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.

Chris Cubas

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The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving.

Christopher McQuarrie

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