Margaret Atwood Quotes

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.

Margaret Atwood

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WorkDarknessWorldOutHeadJust

I grew up in Yorkshire, which is like the Texas of Britain. It's a proud free state and not always liked by the other counties in Britain.

Joanna Coles

FreeProudTexasAlwaysUpLike

I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.

John Oates

FriendsCountryBluesEverythingPop

Successful writers say you should never work from a desk with a view, and the view I have from this one is a huge distraction. There's a garden bursting with fresh vegetation, and just beyond the high wall at the end of it, I can see the sign of the local pub across the road. Distractions, eh? I'm so easily led.

Matt Roper

WorkRoadEndViewYouWall

I've always been a guy who comes in not being guaranteed a spot and always fighting for a spot. Any time you're in a camp, and you're not a big money guy, you're always going to be competing for a job.

Steve Clevenger

TimeMoneyJobFightingYouAlways

I am a connoisseur of products. I check out everything, I try everything.

Tracee Ellis Ross

I AmTryEverythingOutCheckAm

My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.

Misty Copeland

I AmCurvesLoseBecomeSomething

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Joseph Addison

DayClockRightTwiceEvenStopped

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Dennis Farina

SmallBudgetSaidMoviesBuddyTV

Safety has been my top legislative priority. I'm driven by the idea that safety is really a core function of government.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

GovernmentSafetyTopLegislative

My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.

Deborah Moggach

ParentsLandscapeHouseSittingSide

You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.

Anthony Hamilton

DreamsYouSetbacksMatterHappen

It is indeed specially characteristic of the passion of love that it has the faculty of giving a perpetual flow to the interchange of sentiments and reflections in conversation.

William Godwin

LovePassionGivingConversation

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