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Iman Quotes

On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.

Iman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: model
Nationality: somali
Birth: July 25, 1955

Topics

Birthday Thought Trash Fabulous Meal

I don't mean this to sound cliche, but it's really about the work for me. I like to keep working on things.

Jeremy Luke

Work Me Sound Mean Things Working

It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

John le Carre

Good Time Struggle Writing World

First off, I don't do self-deprecation comedy based on being fat. I would always talk about it honestly. Secondly, I don't care how much I weigh.

Jeff Garlin

Care Fat Comedy Talk First Always

I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I'll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.

Steve Berry

Work Morning People Law Brain Start

My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.

Rodney Dangerfield

Friend Mother Me Never She Only

Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits.

Russ Carnahan

Energy Oil Years Twice Big Pump

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

Mary MacLane

Girl Heart I Am Me Writing Think

You're not supposed to have a favourite book - it's like children.

Michael Robotham

Children Book You Like Supposed

I'm never writing as a character.

Lucy Dacus

Character Writing Never

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

Diana Krall

Character Story Sometimes Out Get

In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Deepak Chopra

Success Excellence Ignore You Career

I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.

Deborah Moggach

Teacher Landscape Wanted Publishing