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“As I matured, I've always had the dream of one day either having my own clothing line or owning a fashion magazine. Most of my thesis' and projects in school were fashion and advertising based.”

Dream School Lines My Own Fashion One Day Projects Advertising Magazines Clothings Thesis Matured Fashion Magazines Clothing Line

Author:Ashley Purdy

“The biggest reward is seeing via social media people sending me pictures back with excitement of what they bought from my fashion line. I ReTweet most everyone i see who tweets a photo.”

People Social Lines Seeing Media Fashion Rewards Social Media Excitement Tweet Retweet

Author:Ashley Purdy

“I smoke too much whether it's going well or badly. After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.”

Years Wells Hands Eye Lines Too Much Smoke Pens Associates Ashtrays

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more.”

Feelings Lines Love Is Fine Boxes Affliction Leaving Me Great Love Wanting More

Author:Rihanna

“Is evolution a theory, a system, or a hypothesis? It is much more it is a general postulate to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must henceforward bow and which they must satisfy in order to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a trajectory which all lines of thought must follow this is what evolution is.”

Facts Light Science Order Lines Theory Evolution Bows Hypothesis Trajectory Thinkable

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.”

Lines Democracy Stronger Steel Unbreakable

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.”

Lines Satan Tempting Dividing Snares

Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

“I like to smoke a pipe, because it's the punch line indicator. Whenever I take a hit of the pipe, you should be laughing.”

Should Humor Funny Lines Laughing Smoke Pipe Indicators

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“When it comes to racism, you hear people say, "I don't care if people are white, black, purple or green." Hold on, now, purple or green? Come on now, you gotta draw the line somewhere.”

People Ifs Humor Care Funny Black Lines White Racism Draws Green Don't Care I Don't Care Purple

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I hate arrows. They try to tell me which direction to go. It's like "I ain't going that way, line with two thirds of a triangle on the end!"”

Way Trying Two Ends Humor Funny Hate Lines Thirds I Hate Arrows Triangles

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.”

People Thinking Firsts Ends Humor Funny Lines Crosses Baseball Cards Wire Finish Line

Author:Jerry Coleman

“And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.”

Long Humor Funny Lines Baseball Long Drive

Author:Jerry Coleman

“I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"”

People Way Lines Pleasure Boys Hopefully Bass

Author:Lauryn Hill

“I don't sit down at nine in the morning and begin writing and then take a break for lunch and stop at four. I have no structure like that. I am at my computer constantly, more or less attached to it. I live on-line and hate being off-line and don't care how unhealthy it is.”

Writing Care Hate Lines Break Morning Four Computer Structure Don't Care Nine Lunch Unhealthy

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts.”

Knows Shows Opportunity Social Lines Novel Tvs Research Workers Host Reporters Social Worker Talk Shows Columnists

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem - just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.”

Thinking Way Long Sound Lines Space Reader Breaths Musical Driving Symbols Hills Bridges Etc Traffic Pauses Urgency Indication Steep Icy Intersections Long Lines

Author:Adrienne Rich

“My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple tags or lose a couple tags. The timing is always off.”

Loses Lines Materials Couple Gains Timing Tag Tweak

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“You learn to laugh at yourself and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.”

Kind Self Faces Stuff Lines Laughing Comedy Needed Crosses Edges Comedian Crutches Laugh At Yourself Self Deprecating Learn To Laugh At Yourself

Author:John Cena

“I'm an actor, I created the character myself originally. I do tell the fans I appreciate that they think he's real. It all finally comes down to the writers who really got the character and wrote so many memorable lines.”

Thinking Real Character Actors Lines Fans Appreciate Memorable

Author:Creed Bratton

“A lot of lines in movies were written, but I'm always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me.”

Lines Written Scene Improvising Movie Lines

Author:Chris Tucker

“Just be yourself and everything will fall in line, the way it's supposed to be. If you're yourself, that's the best thing you can do, because you can never go "damn if I'd only been myself." Live an authentic life and you don't have to worry about your reputation.”

Ifs Way Fall Can Do Lines Worry Reputation Supposed To Be Best Things Damn Being Yourself Just Be Yourself Authentic Life

Author:Joan Jett

“You make the work for yourself first and the next line is the people you trust, and you know that they're going to tell you what they feel. They let you know if you're dishing bullshit or if it's real.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Firsts Real Next Lines Bullshit

Author:Robert Longo

“I have a basic theorem as to how I do my jokes. Growing up, I knew when to cross the line and when not to cross the line. It's the same with my comedy. I know what my audience will take and how much they won't take. I can't give you a formula for it. It's my own personal formula inside my head. Somebody else's might be different.”

Knows Giving I Can Different Might Lines My Own Audience Growing Up Comedy Growing Jokes Crosses Formulas Theorems

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“Astronauts are the only kind of celebrity I know who can have a line of people waiting for their autograph, even if the line of people does not know in advance the astronaut's name.”

People Ifs Knows Kind Doe Names Waiting Lines Astronaut Autographs

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.”

People Believe Used Waiting Lines Boring Loops Waiting Around

Author:Al Pacino

“Sometimes I just start humming something, find a melody I like a lot, and if it sticks around for a couple days, a few words will lock themselves into place. I might just get the first line. Then words just keep falling into the syllables. The choruses kind of write themselves and verses I have to work at a little bit.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Kind Littles Sometimes Might Fall Bits Lines Couple Little Bit Sticks Melody Verses Locks Chorus Syllables Few Words Humming

Author:Jack Johnson

“The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.”

Ifs Way Lines Behinds Situation Enemy Best Way Finding Yourself Flood Emergencies Rainy Day Shipwreck

Author:Mark Helprin

“As the years went on, the audience has become very jaded. They've heard every joke, they've seen every story line, they know where you're going before you even start to get there. And that's a hard audience to keep interested.”

Knows Years Hard Stories Lines Audience Heard Jokes Jaded

Author:Betty White

“I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules. I think there is something about a good person doing bad things for what they consider to be a good reason. Then the battle is on to almost prove to the audience that it's justified. How far can you go with that? How far can that character go before people won't accept it? Trying to walk to edge of that line is a challenge.”

People Thinking Trying Persons Reason Character Challenges Lines Walks Accepting Break Audience Battle Prove Edges Bad Things Justified Good Person

Author:Steven Knight

“The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.”

People Made Culture Lines Succeed Weakness Pressure Western Peculiar Western Culture Fetish

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I want to feel like the things I did made a difference. That's one of the reasons I spend time greeting people on rope lines, because I'm always thinking, 'Maybe this interaction, particularly if I'm meeting kids, will change someone's life.' That's how I think about the work I do as First Lady. It's a rare spotlight. I want to make sure I don't waste it.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Feels Firsts Made Reason Kids Differences Lines Waste Meetings Interaction End Times Rope Spend Time Spotlight First Lady Greetings Always Thinking

Author:Michelle Obama

“It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.”

Knows Needs Giving Trying Persons Loses Lines Attention Reader Six Research Tools Journalism Journalist Interviews

Author:Isabel Allende

“So many actors spend so much energy trying to remember the lines. It's so foolish. Guys are the worst.”

Trying Remember Guy Actors Energy Lines Worst Foolish

Author:William H. Macy

“The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.”

Art Lines Risk Art Is Hardest Things To Do Hardest Thing Hardest Thing To Do

Author:Oscar Isaac

“I've been training in Jiu-jitsu for about six years and I'm very fortunate to live in that world. All the fighters hang out and have lunch together just about every day and trade stories. And I've always been fascinated how in the world of Jiu-jitsu in L.A. everybody in the fight world - cops, special forces, bouncers, stuntmen - connected across different lines.”

World Years Different Stories Together Fighting Force Lines Special Six Training Trade Connected Fighter Fortunate Hanging Out Lunch Fascinated Cop Jiu Jitsu Special Forces Stuntman

Author:David Mamet

“I think people in the future will come up to me and say, "Everything that you are and everything that you have is because of that butler [film]." Of course, that's Oprah's line from the movie, but I think it will resonate with my legacy with the movie.”

People Thinking Film Courses Lines Come Up Legacy Butlers

Author:Lee Daniels

“I'm superstitious about the paper that I use, for example. I've written all my novels on a paper of a particular size with lines of a particular distance apart and with two holes in the paper for the folder clip.”

Two Use Lines Novel Written Example Particular Paper Distance Size Holes Superstitious Clip Folders Distance Apart

Author:Philip Pullman

“There's some homophobia within black community, but there's some strong homophobia throughout the whole of American society as well, particularly throughout the South to a degree, whether white or black. And since many of us migrated from the South, that could be a strong connection along those lines.”

Wells Whole Strong Black Community Lines White Degrees Connections South Homophobia American Society Black Community Strong Connection

Author:Otis Moss III

“In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net.”

Facts Goal Lines Poor Behinds Childhood Fronts Balls Photograph Viewers Goalkeepers

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“Dogs are intelligent beings; they are not human beings. The life of a dog - there's no equivalency with the life of a person, and if you are putting a dog in the line of danger to save human life, and they can do the job reasonably well, I mean, seriously, what about dignity and self-respect? I feel like going out to dinner, I think I will have my cocker spaniel host the show tonight.”

“We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.”

Ifs Way Needs Mean Made Lines Fiction Shapes Being True Documentaries Another Way Texture Allegory Vagabonds

Author:Agnes Varda

“The government hates rap. That's why they don't arrest anybody that kills rappers! Only the good ones are dead, man! Only the good ones: Biggie dead, Tupac dead, Vanilla Ice still alive! They don't fill out a police report. They don't even have a chalk line when it's a dead rapper, they just take a piss around the body.”

Men Stills Body Humor Government Funny Hate Lines Alive Police Rap Ice Reports Rapper Dead Man Vanilla Chalk Biggie

Author:Chris Rock

“There's a fine line between masturbating while you look out a window, and masturbating while you're looking in a window. I'll give you a hint: one of 'em is super illegal.”

Giving Looks Humor Funny Lines Fine Window Ems Illegal Hints Fine Lines

Author:Dave Attell

“My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon.”

World War Humor Funny Father Lines Communication Destroyed War Of The Worlds World War I Pigeons Lines Of Communication

Author:Frank Carson

“The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed.”

Ifs Said Two Humor Eye Funny Courses Lines Picks Phones Damn Bless Psychics God Bless Two Days God Bless You

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“I never have free time, I don't know about you. You ever go to the cash machine, there's two people in line in front of you and you get kinda flustered, you're like "Forget it! I'm not standing here for 40 seconds. I got things to do, okay?"”

People Knows Two Humor Funny Lines Forget Fronts Standing Okay Machines Things To Do Seconds Cash Forget It Free Time

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“How complicated can ice cream flavors be? How much can you put in there? I mean, when the flavor's something like banana ice cream with caramel, fudge chunks, cheddar goldfish and pennies - you've got to draw a line there.”

Mean Humor Funny Lines Draws Complicated Ice Cream Flavor Ice Cream Pennies Bananas Chunks Goldfish Fudge Caramel Cheddar

Author:Marc Maron

“Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am all about money. I mean, just look how well my line of zodiac-inspired toe rings and homeopathic children's medications are selling on Home Shopping Network.”

Knows Wells Looks Mean Children Home Humor Funny Lines Inspired Rings Selling Shopping Know Me Toes Medication Zodiac

Book:Bossypants

Source: Bossypants

“This week, penny collector Gene Sukie went to the bank and cashed in ten thousand pounds of pennies he had collected over 34 years, which were worth over fourteen thousand dollars. And, of course, I was in line behind him.”

Years Humor Funny Courses Lines Behinds Week Dollars Pounds Genes Pennies Collectors

Author:Tina Fey

“We do not pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddamn drop of gas in the state of Michigan. We'll coast and push this goddamn car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money.”

Giving States Lines Car Football Gas Coast Ohio Michigan Nickels Michigan Wolverines

Author:Woody Hayes

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