Alison McGhee Quotes

I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.

Alison McGhee

Recitation: by Male by Female

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FriendshipPersonalityTogetherWay

When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general.

John Eisenhower

TemporaryFranceGeneralFell

Nobody, not even the head coach, would do anything to the football unilaterally, such as adjust the amount of pressure in a ball, without the quarterback not knowing. It would have to be the quarterback's idea.

John Madden

FootballPressureNot KnowingNobody

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Anais Nin

LifeStrengthAdversityLoseDefeat

Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history.

Tu Youyou

HistoryLongHumanBeenDisease

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

Robert Fripp

PerformanceTimingEverydaySomething

If we are paying attention to our lives, we'll recognise those defining moments. The challenge for so many of us is that we are so deep into daily distractions and 'being busy, busy' that we miss out on those moments and opportunities that - if jumped on - would get our careers and personal lives to a whole new level of wow.

Robin S. Sharma

DailyChallengeOpportunitiesBusy

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

Joyce Meyer

PatienceWaitingWaitAbilityBehave

I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.

Joyce Carol Oates

BookReadingJudgeEnlightenment

If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.

Jose Ferreira

GoodBusinessDayRisksYouGo

Saying 'no' to very bad legislation is not wrong. In fact, when the American people tell you that they don't want the health care bill, you've got a responsibility to say no.

Jon Kyl

HealthResponsibilityPeopleSaying

I've always been massively aware of clothing.

Jonathan Anderson

AlwaysClothingAwareBeenMassively

I may have a feather duster down my pants.

Johnny Depp

DownPantsMayFeather

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