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I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail.
Geri Halliwell
Tags: Work Fear Courage
When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.
Sally Phillips
Tags: Just Really Lot
I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.
Eddie Campbell
Tags: Time Because Got
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The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.


Robert Scheer
Tags: Book Issue Reform
I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling.
Marianne Vos
Tags: Travel Like World
When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: 'Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.' Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.
Jo Brand
Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.
Beth Ditto
Tags: You Me Where
I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf. If I don't like the book after a bit, I don't finish it. But I like to be surprised.
Stanley Kubrick
Tags: Like Things Go
A lot of women read male magazines. Of course, a lot of guys read female magazines, but they've got another issue to deal with. But a lot of women read men's magazines and think, 'Oh, this is what these guys are thinking? Studying up on the enemy here.'
Sylvester Stallone
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I think my father is nearly perfect. I think he's quite handsome, except a bit fat.


Gina Rinehart
Tags: Think I Think He
Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.
John Bonham
Tags: You Up Know
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You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.


Loretta Lynn
Tags: Business You Got
I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation could be a way to reflect on the issue of religion's relationship to politics.
Elaine Pagels
I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.
William Joyce
Tags: You Me Like
You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
Nancy Werlin
Tags: You About Think
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The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.


Dana Brunetti
Tags: You Always Doing
I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made me have to do that. I didn't feel good about the book all the time I was writing it. It felt a bit like wading through molasses.
Mary Balogh
Tags: Time Good Me
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Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book.


Sharon Draper
Tags: Want Read Girl
You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.
Abby Wambach
Tags: You Just Get
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Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.


Thomas Sydenham
Tags: Good Very Still