Margaret Atwood Quotes

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

Margaret Atwood

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I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.

Ji-Hae Park

MusicPeopleMeThinkNameEnjoy

But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.

Jessica Hagedorn

LiveDanceJoyPeopleThinkEnd

A Cat Stevens record isn't just Cat Stevens' ideas. It's Cat Stevens and all the musicians who play with Cat Stevens, right?

John Darnielle

IdeasMusiciansPlayRightCatJust

I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.

John Collison

TimeSchoolCuriousPeopleMeThink

On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light.

Michael Haneke

LightSoupTryJokesSentimental

With movies, it's 10 or 12 or sometimes even 24 weeks, if it's a massive movie, to live within a character. But with a show that's successful, if you start in the first or second season and go until the end, you're always finding new elements of your character that are being added in because you start to live in them as human beings.

Sinqua Walls

LiveCharacterStartEndFindingGo

I'm just not a great practice player.

Tracy McGrady

GreatPracticeJustPlayer

From that first meeting, I totally loved working with Joey, it was a real collaboration.

Ronnie Spector

CollaborationLovedMeetingFirst

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

Judy Garland

Looking BackLookingSomeoneFinding

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

Janis Ian

GoodLuckGood LuckWritingShort

I do believe women have different ways of taking risks, of ruminating a bit more before they jump to conclusions. And I think that as a result, particularly on the, on, you know, on the trading floor, in the financial markets in general, the approach would be different.

Christine Lagarde

WomenRisksBelieveThinkFinancial

I would drive down in my Volkswagen Jetta to Los Angeles and just audition, audition, audition, audition, and hopefully get something. I did that for two years, and the third year I came down, I auditioned for 'How I Met Your Mother.'

Cobie Smulders

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