Lina Wertmuller Quotes

Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don't believe in prizes much.

Lina Wertmuller

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FlyBelieveColorfulButterflies

I feel a lot of pressure when I'm writing because I know, you know, if they looked at a synopsis of the book, what they read could only confirm all the stereotypes that they have about us and about people like us.

Jesmyn Ward

PeopleWritingBookPressureYouUs

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

Mavis Staples

FatherNowOverYearsOutGone

I feel like if you told me I would be having a son, I would be like, 'Yeah, I'm gonna be a parent - I get that.' But when the doctor was like, 'You're gonna have a girl,' I was like, 'What? Who am I?' It's the craziest piece of information that changes who you are. It's sweet.

Andy Grammer

GirlSonMeSweetDoctorParent

We do become our conversations. We really will become our associations.

Robin S. Sharma

WillBecomeConversationsOurReally

Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.

Michael Stuhlbarg

LifeJoyMindMeFrustrationYou

The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills.

Michael Moore

MedicalBillsCause

I'm into the law of attraction and quantum physics. Like cosmic ordering. It's all about thinking lovely things that you would like in life, and feeling good about them before they manifest, so that by the time they do, you don't want them because you're on to your next desire.

Julia Sawalha

LifeGoodTimeLawThinkingPhysics

I always set out to tell a good story, to create a character that young people can relate to, place them in a situation that will be interesting, intriguing, eventually suspenseful. But what I find is that after I do that, then there are themes that emerge, which teachers can then use to provoke discussion and debate.

Lois Lowry

GoodCharacterPeopleStoryCreate

I missed out on a few proms, homecomings, might miss my graduation. I wouldn't want it any other way... it's worth it.

Chloe Kim

GraduationWorthWantMissedWay

I think the thing that I always try to do - because it piques my interest - is to play really different parts all the time.

Christina Ricci

TimeThinkPlayTryAlwaysInterest

People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.

William Hague

PeopleFeelDoneSayOverSomething

When you retire you want to get as far away as possible from the game for a couple of years.

Pete Sampras

GameYouFar AwayWantPossibleGet

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