Paula McLain Quotes

I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there.

Paula McLain

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You can't stand at the Bellagio and watch these seven story fountains and not go, 'That's something of extraordinary man-made beauty.'

Joe Carnahan

BeautyStoryStandYouGoSomething

I've always gotten along best with artists.

Jerry Hall

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I'm looking for smart friends all the time.

John Lloyd Young

TimeSmartLookingFriends

At home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English.

Matthew Rhys

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If I heard a noise at night, I'd think there was a burglar sneaking around; the first thing I'd do was check on my guitar.

Angus Young

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I especially don't like the graphic violence against women and children often depicted in novels such as 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' and others. I'm not sure if it's being done just to entertain or whether it really is necessary for the characters involved.

Ann Cleeves

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If Nora Roberts were a man, she'd be on the cover of big business magazines as the next Charles Dickens.

Ann Maxwell

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When you take over a company like GE, you think you're going to visit 100 businesses. You're going to go see the factories you haven't seen before. You're going to see a site in Texas and one in Canada and stuff like that. That has fallen by the wayside.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

TexasThinkYouCanadaGoSee

I prefer to write about what we refer to as 'the supernatural' versus everyday life. Humans, by themselves, bore me.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

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I get asked to give stuff to my dad. I'm, like, 'I'm not gonna pass your script to him!' You know? My dad's my dad. I'm not his agent.

Domhnall Gleeson

YouKnowHimGiveGetStuff

My best friend is the most important girl, outside of family, to me. I met her when I went to college and we bonded immediately. I'd do anything for her at any time. We phone each other every day.

Dawn French

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I've actually been in more Elimination Chamber matches than any other human being on the planet. It really has been a badge of honor for me.

Chris Jericho

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