Leandra Medine Quotes

I didn't actually even really know my grandmother; I must have been 3 or 4 when she died.

Leandra Medine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 22, 1988

Topics

KnowGrandmotherSheMustBeenEven

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

Jodi Picoult

WindBookRealityYouSometimesUp

Most people imagine that resolving particular problems will make them happy. If only one had more money, or love, or success, then life would feel manageable. It can be devastating to realize the falseness of such tempered optimism.

Andrew Solomon

LifeLoveSuccessMoneyOptimism

My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.

John Cassavetes

LifeFearFatherMotherGreatGo

Studies of immigration show that this resistance to heart disease is not just something in African or Chinese genes. When people move from low-risk to high-risk areas, disease rates skyrocket as they adopt Western diets and lifestyles.

Michael Greger

HeartPeopleImmigrationResistance

There is no better feeling than doing well while you are doing good. If you really want to meet the nicest, most caring people in your field, get involved with charity work. The thankless hours that go into planning charity dinners, running a carnival, and gathering donations for silent auctions are noticed and appreciated.

Jay Samit

WorkGoodCaringPeopleBetterYou

I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to 'Kashmir' was a debacle.

Chuck D

HatePageClassicSomebodyLikeDid

Halsey's a really great artist - her voice is great, and she has a really cool message behind her songs.

Brendon Urie

GreatCoolVoiceArtistSheHer

I just remember watching my first theater class, and I was like, 'Oh I can get up there,' like I could absolutely get up and do this every day and learn about it.

Brian Tyree Henry

DayLearnRememberEvery DayI Can

Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.

Antonin Scalia

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I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

Ava Gardner

HeartTrustSoulActingDirector

When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

PowerWarPeopleUnderstandGasoline

What's interesting is relative levels of introversion tend to stay the same. If you went back to your reunion from school, you would probably find that if you ranked everyone in your class into terms of levels of introversion and extroversion you'd still be the same rank.

Susan Cain

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