Susan Orlean Quotes

I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myself like a sleeping bag being shoved into a stuff sack. Never! Instead, I would run marathons and work out and be in perfect shape and reject the tyranny of the girdle forever.

Susan Orlean

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WorkMyselfTreatThinkingBagRun

I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.

Jesse Ventura

WorldBelieveEntertainmentNever

What's important in a cellar is having wines that have a broad range of drinkability, which California Cabernet does. Wines with a broad range of drinkability give you a lot of flexibility; they are the sort of wines that make me feel secure. I think of my wine cellar as security - if the apocalypse comes, I can just go down to the cellar.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

MeThinkWineFeelYouSecurity

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.

Michael Caine

WorkGoodMyselfSomeoneOutStuff

The weirder the better for me.

Sia

MeBetterWeirder

If my career was a basketball season, I'm in the pre-season still. I'm not blowing everybody out by 40 - there's so much work to be done, and there's no time to really sit and look back and be proud of what I've done yet, because it's the pre-season still.

Mike Posner

WorkTimeBasketballProudLookOut

You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC,' and you see their eyes just glaze over.

Louis Theroux

EyesJobFamousSomeoneYouSay

Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.

Derek Sivers

MusicArtEasyAttentionMarketing

Anything that had to do with music is what I wanted to do.

Dianne Reeves

MusicAnythingWantedHad

My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.

Dennis Wilson

OutBeatUsedUsTyrantCrap

Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.

Corbin Bernsen

GodKindWayBeenCloserMaking

Politics disgusts me.

Brigitte Bardot

PoliticsMe

I looked, and saw that Bob had entirely lost his left ear, and a large piece from his left cheek. His right eye was a little discoloured, and the blood flowed profusely from his wounds.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

EyeLostBloodRightLittleLeft

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