Alex Shoumatoff Quotes

In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while a couple of dozen gray-crowned cranes, with regal bonnets of sun-shot yellow feathers, were pecking and padding around in the adjacent savanna.

Alex Shoumatoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 4, 1946

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WifeYellowFeathersVillageThree

I'm outdoors a lot, so I get dark. Guess who gets stopped? I've been pulled over, and they ask, 'Where are you from?' I say, 'Montana.' They say, 'Are you sure? And I say, 'I'm reasonably sure I'm from Montana, but you know, this is a dream life.' You start on this shtick with them and it's fun.

Jim Harrison

LifeFunStartOutdoorsYouDark

Do something good for someone every day.

Jesse White

GoodDaySomeoneEvery DaySomething

It's the nature of an actor to have to use sense memory.

Anjelica Huston

NatureMemoryActorSenseUse

Because I never set out to be an actress, I always feel so lucky and grateful. There are so many people who are really desperate to be stars, and it was completely the opposite for me - I fell into it.

Sophia Myles

StarsGratefulPeopleMeFeelLucky

I love yoga. I can practice it wherever I am, at home, in my hotel room... I like playing tennis, too, but that's more of a hobby because I'm not very good!

Sigrid Agren

LoveGoodHomeI AmPracticeHotel

How many State of the Union addresses do people remember? They don't resonate that way.

Robert Dallek

PeopleRememberWayUnionStateHow

I have to be extra careful, but I'm never going to change the way I play.

Diego Costa

ChangePlayWayNeverGoingExtra

With many things in life, you're there because there's a cute girl around that you want to go out with, and you end up finding magic. You end up not caring about the girl but wanting to stay there because of what you found. That happened with 'Amarcord' to me.

Diego Luna

LifeGirlCuteCaringMeEnd

I've always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels.

Christina Aguilera

GoodAlwaysHeelsBeenEvenReally

I think it's a fair criticism to say that we've gotten our fill of superhero films, and audiences should just have different things to choose from when they go to the theaters.

Chris Pine

ThinkCriticismChooseGoSayFair

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

Philip Levine

MotherMeBecomeLuckyPoetWho

I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.

Pierre Dukan

CultureThinkAmericaMarketing

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