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Laurie Graham Quotes

In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.

Laurie Graham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: english
Birth: November 25, 1947

Topics

Children Food Sometimes Street Yes

Sometimes you meet characters at certain points in your life and have a connection with them.

Jessie Buckley

Life You Connection Sometimes Meet

Charisma seems to be more about the intoxicating quality that you have on other people, as opposed to presence, which is more about the self in relation to others, and how you feel you represented yourself in a situation, and how you were able to engage. So it's less about how others see you and more about how you see yourself.

Amy Cuddy

Quality Yourself People Self You

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Sloane Crosley

Job College Looking Out Accepted

In MMA it's a lot less intimidating because it's not like you get one shot at a title every four years. You get a title shot every couple of months... With the Olympics, you don't always have this, so there is so much more pressure involved.

Ronda Rousey

Pressure You More Always Years MMA

It's like a candy store for an illustrator, I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the way J.K. described everything; she's such a visually thinking person. You can't pass that up.

Mary Grandpre

Thinking Loved You Person Way Candy

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

Mike O'Malley

Good Think Television Evolving Well

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.

Molly Sims

Food Speak Language Know Strange

Just trust those around you and trust yourself.

Johnny Simmons

Trust Yourself You Just Around

When I was seven, I gave a letter to Cinderella in Disney World asking if I could be in a Disney movie. So, working for Disney was really a childhood dream come true.

Brittany Curran

Childhood World Dream True Asking

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

Anthony Caro

Life Think Chair Table Sculpture

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

Alice Meynell

Travel Memory Angel Strong Name Own

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

William Gibson

Light Mind Eye Language More Than