Naomi Alderman Quotes

If I'm working every day, it's like pumping a pump. When you start, rusty water comes out, and then it runs clear. I do it even if I get completely stuck.

Naomi Alderman

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WaterDayStartYouEvery DayOut

We all have our levels of risk tolerance. People who have decided they want to go to space are going to go.

Jim Cantrell

SpacePeopleToleranceGoWantRisk

There have been situations where I have lost movies because I've said, 'This is not a fair deal,' and I've walked away.

Jessica Chastain

LostSaidMoviesFairWhereBeen

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people. And when we uphold the rule of law it provides a powerful alternative to the twisted worldview offered by al-Qa'ida.

John O. Brennan

PeopleLawToolsAmericanPowerful

I have a little easier time watching the NFL than college or high school. I used to go to the high school games, and now I have trouble with it. The NFL players get big rewards from it. I feel at least the NFL has made big changes to help their safety. And they're adults - they can make good decisions.

Ann McKee

GoodTimeSchoolCollegeSafety

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

Michael Bay

LovePressureThriveWantSize

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

John Travolta

CharacterManLooksSometimesActor

Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.

Rosanne Cash

MindBabyVoiceThinkYearLost

I am proud of Edinburgh's status as a financial centre, but where is it on the index of global financial centres? Sixty-fourth. Below Hamilton, Casablanca and Mauritius. London, by contrast, is second only to New York. That's a link worth keeping.

Rory Bremner

I AmNew YorkProudFinancialWorth

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Michel de Montaigne

NatureBeginningEndDevilFirst

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Anthony Sampson

PersonalityUnknownCommitteeExtra

Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone.

William Joyce

TruthDayMeSisterPhoneShe

I go on benders where I just exercise like a maniac. And then I go on benders where I just can only take baths. Like, I have to lay down to bathe, and I could go on that for six months.

Sharon Stone

ExerciseDownGoTakeWhereJust

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