Sheherazade Goldsmith Quotes

Despite my love affair with skyscraper heels, luckily for my feet I rarely wear them - preferring, instead, the comfort and child-handling practicalities of a pair of trainers.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

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LoveFeetComfortHeelsWearAffair

I'd always step up to the mark to serve the people of the country.

Johann Lamont

StepPeopleCountryAlwaysUpServe

When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because I felt like, when I was with him, I wanted to be writing and I should be writing. And when I was writing, I felt like I should be with him, and wanted to be with him. So I was unhappy a lot.

Jennifer Egan

TimeTogetherChildWritingUnhappy

It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

John le Carre

GoodTimeStruggleWritingWorld

When I don't feel like working out, lifting weights or doing serious cardio, the best thing for me to do is just go on the treadmill and walk. I walk and listen to music and 10 minutes will go by, then 15, and then I'll speed up a bit. Once my blood really starts flowing, I'll get a second wind and then I want to work out.

Steve Howey

WorkMusicBestWalkMeWind

Jill Eisenstadt's comic second novel, 'Kiss Out,' is a work of such extravagant wackiness, eccentricity, and exuberance that any attempt to squeeze it into the confines of a simple plot summary seems doomed to failure and is possibly pointless.

Stephen McCauley

WorkFailureSimpleKissOutPlot

I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way.

Sophia Bush

LoveFierceBodyBoxingWayForce

For someone who made such an enormous contribution to American literature, Mark Twain has been the subject of many books but few major biographies.

Michael Patrick Hearn

AmericanSomeoneLiteratureMark

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

Michael Phelps

BestSchoolMeCrazyDinnerDrive

I was trained to be loud, passionate, direct. I didn't realize for the longest time I was intimidating.

Dawn Steel

TimePassionateRealizeLoudLongest

I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful.

Brendan Coyle

LookingSingleMeaningfulSomething

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Ansel Adams

DisappointmentPhotographyLandscape

Smell is the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I'm amazed that people don't sniff everything.

Richard E. Grant

MemoryPeopleBrainSmellLeapOur

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