Susan Orlean Quotes

My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.

Susan Orlean

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BirthdayFriendFindingEarlyNew

To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

MeRootsHelpEventsGetOff

It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it.

Jessica Lange

MyselfSimpleEndDoingDownKnow

I'm a very lucky girl who gets to act for a living! So why sit around griping and grousing about what's not there.

Melissa Leo

GirlLivingWhyLuckyActSit

People still make me nervous, but gradually over the years I've developed kind of like a public personality, so I can talk. I have my spiel, I have my stories.

Robert Crumb

PersonalityPeopleMeI CanKind

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Ronald Reagan

GovernmentRightsIndividualUsOnly

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

Mike Rutherford

PetMovingFeelYouInformationNow

Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.

Mitt Romney

MarriageLiveTodayRelationshipMan

I was going to be a chemical engineer - I was a science nerd - that was the plan. I secretly applied to USC and NYU and got a scholarship to go to NYU based on a dumb animated short I made. It was a huge shock to me and my family.

Jon Watts

FamilyScienceMeShortPlanDumb

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

Denzel Washington

WorkThinkCameraDoneWhereBehind

The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

Douglas Sirk

ArtWarEndPhilosophyTryingNew

I think of being ornate as a Victorian quality, little to do with Shakespeare. But even Dickens wasn't ornate; he wrote with flow and naturalism.

Christopher Plummer

QualityThinkFlowLittleBeingHe

YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although it's harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.

Conor Maynard

AmazingMusiciansYoungNowYouTube

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