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Margaret Oliphant Quotes

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

Margaret Oliphant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: scottish
Birth: April 4, 1828 - June 25, 1897

Topics

Style Mind Fashion Better Never Own

The theater I got to do informs every move I make as an actor and will for the rest of my life. I can't shake it if I wanted to, but I don't want to.

Life Rest My Life Want Actor Will

Dick Gregory will be greatly missed. Humbly, and in his stead, 'Turn Me Loose' carries on to be his voice and his inspiration for all who wish to laugh at the absurdity of racism and be enlightened by his spirit of justice.

Justice Racism Me Voice Laugh Wish

To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Hope Corruption Need Finish No Hope

I've been surfing several times, and I'm terrible at it. But what I found was that you're usually waiting on the board, hanging out, watching the waves come in. And one that you think is a big wave is not actually one.

Waiting Waves Think Wave You Out

I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I'm in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we've ever invented has quite done before.

Love Technology Power Imagination

With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it.

Truth Money Experience People Laugh

In any good piece of writing, it should be easy enough to switch genders.

Good Writing Enough Easy Switch Any

I don't much enjoy Back and Forth. I mean, I think it has its own particular qualities, but I think it's inferior to any of the half-hour ones we did.

Think Enjoy Back Mean Own Inferior

I was always a little bit afraid because I found out at a very early age that once you make a record, all the mistakes and all the good things are there for eternity.

Good Age Mistakes Good Things You

I just never really though you could or couldn't listen to a certain type of music.

Music You Listen Never Just Though

Each summer, as Lake Michigan finally begins to warm, I think of the men of the World War II cruiser Indianapolis and the worst disaster at sea in United States naval history. I go down to the lake, and I wonder: How would I have survived what they experienced?

Sea History Men War World Think

I was a cocky kid.

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