I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.
Alistair Maclean
WritingEnjoyBornWriter
If 'Bobby McGee' lasts, if 'Star Is Born' lasts, if 'Help Me Make It through the Night' lasts, if all of 'em last, man... who cares?
Kris Kristofferson
ManMeNightHelpBornStar
True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.
Alek Wek
KindnessBeautyBornTrueOthers
I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
HeartPastI AmFaceNameBorn
Europe was born with Jean Monnet but then was progressively transformed.
Beppe Grillo
BornEuropeThenTransformedJean
There is more excitement, more amazement when a first is born. No subsequent babies can have that impact.
Deborah Tannen
ImpactBornExcitementMoreFirst
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
Norman Mailer
DayWavesSeedTelevisionBornMore
Minimalism had to be born, not out of a mere spur-of-the-moment idea or yearning for a new lifestyle, but from an earnest desire and fervent need to rethink our lives.
Fumio Sasaki
BornNewDesireLifestyleNeedOut
My genuine passion for dance was born watching Ballet Rambert perform Christopher Bruce's harrowing 'Ghost Dances.'
Robert Rinder
PassionDanceBornGenuineWatching
I was born with a terrible temper, but this is the way of expressing myself. I flare up, but it goes quickly, and I don't remember it long.
Katy Jurado
MyselfRememberLongBornWayUp
My father was born on Christmas Day in 1934. He grew up in what is now part of North Korea. When the Korean War began, my father was 16, and he found passage on an American refugee ship,thinking he'd be gone for just a few days, but he never saw his mother or his sister again.
Min Jin Lee
FatherMotherDayWarSisterBorn
I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.
Natalie Imbruglia
TalentBornSongwritingNatural
'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.
Woody Harrelson
RomanticComedyBornMisunderstood
Here's a question we all ask ourselves at least once when we're young: Where does that starlight come from? It's been there before I was born, and before my grandmother, and her grandmother were born. So just how far is that star from Earth?
Kim Young-ha
BornEarthYoungGrandmotherAsk
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Albert Camus
GreatBeginningDoorThoughtsBorn
One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
Simone de Beauvoir
WomanBornBecomes
In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.
Ben Horowitz
LifeYouBornRunNonsenseLevel
I'm not trying to be anything other than the way I was born and raised.
Donald Cerrone
TryingBornWayAnythingI Was Born
Born in poverty, he will take supreme power. He will bankrupt the country. Raising an army in the Milanese marches, he will drain Faenza and Florence of gold and people.
Nostradamus
PowerPeopleGoldArmyPovertyBorn
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Franz Kafka
ParentsSlaveryTyrannyBornTwo
As we grow up, we're constantly defining ourselves. In my case: Caucasian, male, born in Iowa, live in Boston, Zen Buddhist, good at learning languages. With countless labels, I build up this creation I call my self.
Robert J. Waldinger
LearningGoodLiveSelfGrowBorn
Stalin was born Joseph Dzhugashvili in 1878 in Gori, Georgia, on the periphery of the Russian Empire. His father was a hard-drinking cobbler whose relationship with Joseph's mother, Keke Geladze, came to an end when the boy was around six years old.
Keith Gessen
FatherMotherRelationshipEndBorn
We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.
Mitch Albom
DieBornMatterTwoThingsGoing
All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.
Mamie Gummer
FamilyWomenMeHusbandBornKnow
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