Gary Paulsen Quotes

I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!

Gary Paulsen

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WifeFunStupidBookDrunkPerson

I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.

Joanna Lumley

LoveGreenDaddyOffMadeCardboard

As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

Jennifer Armintrout

BusinessOpportunityDiversityChance

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

Jeffrey Sachs

IdeasWorldRestAmericanEconomy

Going to the moon was a fable. Resetting aging is a fable, but that's what we're setting out to do.

Michael Fossel

AgingMoonOutGoingSettingFable

When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.

Michael Apted

GoodTimeStartYouPlaceWant

The wife's submission is not a matter of superior versus inferior; rather, it is self-imposed as a matter of obedience to the Lord and of love for her husband.

Steve Pearce

LoveWifeHusbandObedienceMatter

Even if a kid doesn't go into acting or the arts like I did, some kids need that environment to find themselves and find what they love to do.

Tony Hale

LoveEnvironmentFindActingGoKid

I haven't had the opportunity to study visual art, but it was always my first love when it came to artistic expression. I started drawing and experimenting with visual art when I was 5.

Rupi Kaur

LoveOpportunityArtDrawingFirst

Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.

Mary J. Blige

Growing UpFriendsGrowingUp

I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars.

Mary Quant

SchoolDressedSoftLikeTeenager

What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.

Luanne Rice

MotherTeacherTimeHabitThink

You meet people, and you're like, 'I don't know how I feel about you,' and someone does something surprising that changes your mind. We're interesting creatures; we're nuanced, complicated and layered, and we make all sorts of choices.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

PeopleMindChoicesInterestingYou

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