Margaret Atwood Quotes

If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again.

Margaret Atwood

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HeartBookReadingThinkYouStop

I always felt that Bette Davis was one of the great screen actresses who never really got her due - she won two Oscars, but the last was in 1938, and that was really before all the great work that she did.

Robert Osborne

WorkGreatNeverSheTwoGreat Work

No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.

Stafford Cripps

GovernmentChaosOpinionViolenceUs

Take my gay-hairdresser routine. You'll let your hairdresser say things to you that you wouldn't let your parents say. My hairdresser will say the funniest things, so I asked him if I could put him in my routine - you know, make fun of him in a good way. He said, 'Oh, mention my name, mention my name!'

Sinbad

GoodFunParentsNameYouRoutine

I like my ladies lady-ish, feminine so to speak. I love jeans and hoodies, but the idea of being an ultimate tomboy does slightly confuse me.

Tom Felton

LoveMeSpeakJeansTomboyBeing

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Logan Pearsall Smith

HappinessVintageWineTasteSeems

I know a lot of incredibly, profoundly talented, skilled people that aren't given certain opportunities or any opportunities, and that aren't working.

Johnny Galecki

PeopleOpportunitiesKnowWorking

To be famous and broke is hard.

David Spade

FamousHardBroke

I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is.

Richard Russo

GoodCarePrettyRead

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

Marilyn Manson

KidOutsiderJustLikeFelt

Don't say yes to something just because it's an opportunity.

Lennon Parham

OpportunityJust BecauseSayYes

Now, the term 'friend' is a little loose. People mock the 'friending' on social media, and say, 'Gosh, no one could have 300 friends!' Well, there are all kinds of friends. Those kinds of 'friends,' and work friends, and childhood friends, and dear friends, and neighborhood friends, and we-walk-our-dogs-at-the-same-time friends, etc.

Gretchen Rubin

WorkFriendChildhoodSocial Media

It's a pity I flew only once. A space flight is like a drug - once you experience it, you can't think of anything else.

Gherman Titov

ExperienceSpaceThinkYouFlight

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