Couple Quotes - Page 28

• I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in non-fiction, just because I got a couple of magazine jobs when I was really poor and needed the money and it turned out that non-fiction was much more interesting than I thought it was.

  David Foster Wallace

  Jobs, Writing, Interesting

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• If I'm being forgiving of myself, I could say I'm somebody who was really hungry for experiences. The same thing that would make me go try to be a trail cook on a ranch was the same thing that would make me want to have sex with a couple cowboys while I was there.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sex, Cowboy, Forgiving

  Interview with Rachel Khong, therumpus.net. October 29, 2012.

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• If the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set. The monarchy is mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In the next couple of generations, it is bound to go. There is so much else in the world that is more interesting.

  Hilary Mantel

  Interesting, Mind, Generations

  Source: www.newrepublic.com

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• University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.

  Michael O'Leary

  Years, Bird, Drink

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.

  Michael O'Leary

  Years, Needs, Next

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• In production, in the first couple of weeks of production, that it was more like making an internet musical.

  Joss Whedon

  Musical, Firsts, Internet

  "/Film Set Interview: ‘The Avengers’ Writer/Director Joss Whedon". Interview with Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. April 2, 2012.

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• Dave and I as a couple seem to be the acceptable face of gayness, and that's great. I've got to use that power to try and do what I can - or we have - to try to make the situations in Russia and Poland better.

  Elton John

  Russia, Trying, Faces

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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• As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the political things. Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and that's it.

  Robert Greene

  Book, Fighting, Years

  "Big Think Interview With Robert Greene". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. December 14, 2009.

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• Whenever I do a movie I always like to base my character off of a couple different characters.

  The Miz

  Character, Different, Different Characters

  "Interview: Mike Mizanin and Francia Raisa Talk Christmas Bounty". Press Conference, www.shockya.com. November 26, 2013.

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• Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that management didn't have this money out at work ... Now look. Presto! A new fashion! Cash is back in! Denigrating liquidity has dropped quicker than hemlines. A management is now saluted if it has some cash, some liquidity, doesn't have to go to the money market at huge interest rates to get the wherewithal to keep going and growing. Along with Ben Franklin, my father and your father would understand and applaud this new economic fashion.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Fashion, Money, Father

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• Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Marriage, Men, Office

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5142, e-artnow

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• I'm really conscious of the amount of food I eat, but I don't deny myself anything. For example, I have a really big sweet tooth. At the end of the night, if I'm craving ice cream, I might not have the bowl that I would have when I was a kid, but I'll put a couple of scoops in a coffee mug, and I'll eat it slowly, and I enjoy every moment of it.

  Summer Sanders

  Sweet, Coffee, Kids

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• Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks.

  Summer Sanders

  Kids, Swim, Lessons

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• Once I was a couple. I was my own king and queen
  with cheese and bread and rosé on the rocks of Rockport.

  Anne Sexton

  Queens, Kings, Rocks

  Anne Sexton (1996). “El Asesino y otros poemas”, p.73, Icaria Editorial

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• In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.

  Anita Loos

  Jobs, Team, Wife

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them.

  Florence King

  Growing Up, Pain, Home

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• Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.

  Frank Pittman

  Cheer, Brass Bands, People

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• It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining.

  David Hume

  Religious, Cat, Men

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2007). “A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition”, p.70, Oxford University Press

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• And, as a consequence of the pressure that we've applied over the last couple of weeks, we have Syria -- for the first time -- acknowledging that it has chemical weapons, agreeing to join the convention that prohibits the use of chemical weapons, and the Russians -- their primary sponsors -- saying that they will push Syria to get all of their chemical weapons out. The distance that we've traveled over these couple of weeks is remarkable.

  Barack Obama

  Distance, Justice, Unity

  "Full Transcript: President Obama Speaks Exclusively to George Stephanopoulos on 'This Week'". "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. September 15, 2013.

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• Folks call me Ellis. I run an auto shop with a couple of my buddies. We're also in a band. I play bass.

  Ellis

  Running, Play, Band

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• Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. "A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal".

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Husband, Fall

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Men, Years, Giving

  Willard Van Orman Quine (1976). “The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother and I moved around a lot. We basically moved every couple of years, and I went to a lot of different schools. But creativity, for us, was always a way of life. It was never a job. Being an artist was a passion and a way of life.

  Jared Leto

  Mom, Brother, Jobs

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2013.

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• There are a couple of different types of food I eat a lot. I was raised in the South, in Tennessee, so I’m going to go with comfort food, soul food. I would probably start with collard greens and candied baby carrots and then have some biscuits and white gravy - and for dessert, probably blackberry cobbler.

  Megan Fox

  Baby, White, Soul

  Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• It's a little bit odd. The first time you do the play, you kind of throw yourself into it, trying to get the most out of all the individual moments. Then, a few hours later, you're still there, wondering what you could possibly do differently than what you just did a couple hours ago.

  Michael Shannon

  Play, Trying, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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