Alexandra Fuller Quotes

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.

Alexandra Fuller

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HonestyCourageBeautifulSometimes

Spying on our citizens? That's just wrong.

Matt Rosendale

WrongJustCitizensSpyingOur

I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

John Philpot Curran

NeverAfraidGhostWhoHeard

Being a young woman is difficult enough, but add to that the pressures of Hollywood's spotlight, and you have a lot to navigate.

Amanda de Cadenet

WomanEnoughYouYoungHollywood

I don't think anything is forever, but when my kids tell me they love me, that's forever.

Steven Tyler

LoveMeThinkLove MeTellAnything

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

MusicPeopleKnowJustWhoHow

When you are talking about transportation, people aren't making their plans while in front of a computer.

Logan Green

PeopleTalkingTransportationYou

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

Drew Barrymore

WordsThinkLanguagePowerfulKid

So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.

Chris Roberson

Growing UpKingsWhiteGrowingKind

I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.

Bruce Vilanch

WorkLiveYouMeanOutStarted

We're confronted with great darkness as a species right now as spiritual creatures on this planet. I don't think it's hopeless, and I don't want 'You've Never Seen Everything' to make people feel hopeless. But I think we've got to call a spade a spade.

Bruce Cockburn

GreatDarknessSpiritualPeopleYou

One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.

Bruce Lipton

FatEnvironmentMoreFirstTurn

I love pancakes, and I actually do love healthy stuff. Like, I love gluten-free or whole-wheat pancakes. Breakfast is my favorite meal.

Ashley Tisdale

LoveBreakfastHealthyMealStuff

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