Erin McKean Quotes

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Erin McKean

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If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

Jennifer Connelly

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It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon.

Meat Loaf

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With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.

John Oates

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Life shows us all the time, really and truly, that you're not in control of most things, but at the same time, the things that you are able to control, you should definitely hold on to that. But it's okay that you can't control every aspect of your life.

Rozonda Thomas

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The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great. I did a tiny bit in the one school in Paris, and it was wonderful because you'd have a nude taking a crazy position, and you'd have 10 seconds to do a drawing. Then you'd do a one-minute drawing.

Lou Doillon

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I'm thankful to be here in Cleveland, and I believe this is where I belong.

Josh Gordon

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I think I've had more fun playing Varga than I've had for quite a number of years playing anything.

David Thewlis

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It's actually just as cool to be on television as to be in a movie, and nobody's ashamed of this back and forth.

Brett Gelman

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Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.

Bonnie Raitt

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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

Anthony Trollope

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I had a birthday party with my family and friends at a house, and Chipotle catered. It was beautiful.

Ansel Elgort

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I know for myself, every now and again on HBO, they'll show some of the young comedian specials from the '80s and early '90s, and it's just fascinating to watch those comedians - some of whom are people that are world-famous, like Chris Rock or Judd Apatow - to see the jokes that people had, but also, the way everything looked.

Wyatt Cenac

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