Susan Orlean Quotes

I had forgotten how thrilling a snow day is until my son started school, and as much as he loves it, he swoons at the idea of a free day arriving unexpectedly, laid out like a gift.

Susan Orlean

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SnowSonDaySchoolFreeGift

The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

Joanna Southcott

SummerLandNextCornDistressOur

'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work.

Jerry Leiber

WorkDogMusicCityWritingEnergy

I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

EmotionsDramaEveryoneBecauseLike

When you have confidence, you do feel like you're much younger.

Maye Musk

ConfidenceFeelYouLikeMuch

There were six kids in our family, and I grew up fast. I had to do a lot of things on my own. I was a rebellious teenager. That's why coming into the film business was good for me because it gave me some discipline. Once I became an actor, I had to grow up a little more.

Matt Dillon

FamilyGoodBusinessDisciplineMe

When we look at what has the strongest statistical relationship to overall evaluation of your life, the first one is your career well-being, or the mission, purpose and meaning of what you're doing when you wake up each day.

Tom Rath

LifeRelationshipDayPurposeDoing

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

Robert Collier

ConfidenceFaithTruthKnowing

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Robert Collier

SimpleManDesignKindBeginnings

I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people.

Robert Wilson

AloneI AmPeopleSayAlwaysLike

I like debate and argument, so I'm usually all right with disagreement, and I'm even all right if the critic doesn't come to a clear thumbs up or thumbs down. But I need the disagreement to have some kind of line I can follow on the map. I like following an interesting mind along it.

Michelle Dean

MindInterestingDownI CanArgument

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.

Michael Stipe

AmericanNowKindBandAthensBeing

Objectifying is kind of a funny thing. Art is objectification, all art, because you're taking someone and making them into an object. But people can also talk back more to you when you're sketching them. They can look at you and say, 'Oh man, you got me wrong.'

Molly Crabapple

FunnyArtManPeopleMeSomeone

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