My Birthday Quotes - Page 8

• I hate birthdays. It's so funny, people always come up to me, "Hey! It's my birthday!" But when it's my birthday, I don't want to talk about it, I don't wanna tell anybody.

  Josh Groban

  Hate, People, Hey

  "Josh Groban and Denée Benton are Broadway bound". Interview with David Cote, www.timeout.com. August 23, 2016.

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• To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year's Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods that are very indicative of my class.

  Sandra Cisneros

  New Year, Years, Class

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• A few years ago, for my birthday, Sean Price Williams said, "I'll give you one free day of shooting." He shot Kati with an I and co-shot Fake It So Real. While we've always worked together, I didn't want him to do it for free, so he cashed in his birthday chip and came for this one day.

  Robert Greene

  Real, Years, Giving

  Source: www.cineaste.com

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• Imagine my delight and awe when I discovered such a thing was a real genre - contemporary fantasy or urban fantasy. It was like having my birthday twice in one week and cookie dough for breakfast.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Real, Cookies, Delight

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• I have a deep connection with Mahatma Gandhi, partly because my mother was a very, very staunch Gandhian and brought us up that way. When I was six years old, and all the girls were getting nylon dresses, I was very keen to get a nylon frock for my birthday. My mother said, “I can get it for you, but would you rather—through how you live and what you wear and what you eat—ensure that food goes into the hands of the weaver or ensure that profits go into the bank of an industrialist?” That became such a checkstone for everything in life.

  Vandana Shiva

  Girl, Mother, Hands

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• I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out - that'll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for my birthday.

  Jo Brand

  Husband, Yesterday, Stitches

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• She knew what he had in mind. He'll propose in Scotland on my birthday. There was no doubt as to what her answer would be.

  Jana Oliver

  Scotland, Doubt, Mind

  Jana Oliver (2012). “Foretold: A Demon Trappers Novel”, p.352, Macmillan

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• My birthday is in August - right before September, so I have that "back to school" feeling ingrained in me so that time of year is when I usually do personal goals or resolutions.

  Jen Kirkman

  School, August, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I like to be in my birthday suit as much as possible.

  Courtney Robertson

  Suits

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• I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Talking, People, Wish

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• According to the book Celebrate Today, June 18th is National Splurge Day. Besides being the birthday of Paul McCartney and Isabella Rossellini, it's also mine. Go ahead; celebrate my birthday and don't worry about the cost!

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Book, June

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• I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.

  Rachel Zoe

  Girl, Reading, Party

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• On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.

  Eva Herzigova

  Birthday, Milan, Collections

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• I often go to bed in my birthday suit. But I like teddies and cute little undies that match. I like a sexy bra and panty set, or little shorts.

  Queen Latifah

  Cute, Sexy, Bed

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• I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.

  Susan Orlean

  Birthday, Cutting, Thinking

  "Prune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2010.

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• If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

  Anita Baker

  Birthday, Dumb, Junk

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• Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl.

  Chris Hardwick

  Birthday, Girl, Song

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.82, Penguin

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• For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Birthday, Cake, Numbers

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• For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like "Blue Kentucky Girl," by Emmylou Harris, and "Off the Wall," by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's "Purple Rain" - it just can't be done!

  Connie Britton

  Birthday, Girl, Wall

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Choices, Childhood, Events

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.

  Carrie Mae Weems

  Birthday, Art, My Boyfriend

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• My favorite holiday is my birthday-it's very Leo.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Holiday, My Favorite

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• For my birthday that year Anne gave me an inflatable atlas globe, along with a birthday card in which she wrote: I give you the world. Have fun blowing it up.

  Craig Ferguson

  Fun, Years, Giving

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• I am not insecure enough to count the bouquets I receive on my birthday, I don't assess my popularity by the number of magazine covers I am on, I don't get worried if my song is on the seventh position on countdown charts.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Song, Insecure, Numbers

  "I want to retain what I have, recapture what I've lost". Interview with Komal Nahta, in.rediff.com. January 13, 2000.

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• I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

  Daniel Handler

  Birthday, Book, Thinking

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