Tall Quotes - Page 34

• If I had, say, a tall, amateur male lead living on the campus of a rural college (Six Years), the next book might feature a short, cop who lives in the heart of Manhattan (Missing You).

  Harlan Coben

  Book, Heart, College

  "Harlan Coben on "Fool Me Once"". Amazon Book Review Interview, www.omnivoracious.com. March 31, 2016.

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• The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.

  Boris Johnson

  Party, Leader, World

  "Conservative MPs in uproar as Boris Johnson 'rips party apart' by withdrawing from leadership contest after ambush by Michael Gove" by Laura Hughes, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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• There is no reason to not trust your process, no reason to get frustrated, no reason to criticize, or judge others, nothing wrong with getting old, or not being able to get pregnant, or being handicapped, or being short or tall or gay, or injured, or divorced or married to an idiot, or with Christianity or Judaism or Islam, or indigenous beliefs, or pollution, crime, war, Bush, etc. When this understanding grows, we realize where we're at now is just as perfect as wherever we could possibly get to.

  Bryan Kest

  War, Gay, Perfect

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• William 'Big Bill' Rockefeller, who sold cancer 'cures' from a medicine wagon, taught him to leap into his arms from a tall chair. One time his father held his arms out to catch him but pulled them away as little John jumped. The fallen son was told sternly, 'Remember, never trust anyone completely, not even me.'

  Jim Marrs

  Father, Cancer, Son

  "Rule By Secrecy: The Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commision, the Freemasons and the Great Pyramids". Book by Jim Marrs, April 26, 2000.

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• I did make several trips to the very wonderful [Georgia] O'Keeffe museum. Besides the art (my favorite paintings are from her Pelvis series) my favorite thing about the museum is the architecture. I love how enormously tall the doors are - it is like going into a church. There is also something home-like about the layout of the museum. I wish I could live there!

  Liza Campbell

  Art, Home, Museums

  Source: newwest.net

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• I tell actresses, "If you're too tall, if you're too fat, you're not going to work. I don't care how talented you are." It's a business, and sex sells.

  Pam Grier

  Sex, Care, Actresses

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Kaytoo [from the Star Wars] is more even-keeled. And he's a badass. He comes from the Empire, and he's a security droid. Some people call him an enforcer droid. He has the ability to enforce things. That was what he was built for. He's tall. He has an intimidating frame.

  Alan Tudyk

  Stars, Badass, War

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I live in the Village right near NYU, which is taking over most of the Village. I've lived there for most of my time in New York. One of the things I like about the Village is, it's considered the kind of area where you can't have skyscrapers or, actually, many tall buildings. So you can see the sky which, I think, is a benefit.

  Nat Hentoff

  New York, Thinking, Sky

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Alison [McGhee] and I have known each other since the summer of 2001. One evening we were sitting around talking about how we wished we had a good story to work on. Alison said: Why don't we work on a story together? I said: A story about what? And Alison said: A story about a short girl and a tall girl.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Girl, Summer, Talking

  Interview with Eliza Borné, bookpage.com. September 2010.

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• To appear well dressed, be skinny and tall.

  Mason Cooley

  Style, Skinny, Well Dressed

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• But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

  Zadie Smith

  Lying, Past, Perfect

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White teeth”

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• The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills beyond the cities and towns. We moved over them and through the tall grass on faith, kneading paths into the windswept growth like pioneers. While we slept, the war rubbed its thousand ribs against the ground in prayer.

  Kevin Powers

  Prayer, Spring, War

  Kevin Powers (2012). “The Yellow Birds”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• When you sit down to design something, it can be anything, a car, a toaster, a house, a tall building or a shoe, what you draw or what you design is really a culmination of everything that you've seen and done in your life previous to that point.

  Tinker Hatfield

  Shoes, Car, House

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• Sit tall in the saddle and hold your head up high. Keep your eyes fixed where the trail
  meets the sky, and live like you ain't afraid to die. Don't be scared...just enjoy the ride.

  Chris LeDoux

  Eye, Sky, Scared

  FaceBook post by Chris LeDoux from Mar 09, 2015

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• Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in ... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me. It would be nice if models were allowed to be a more healthy weight - for the models, and for the young women who look up to them. We were athletic and healthy, and we looked like women.

  Tatjana Patitz

  Girl, Zero, Nice

  "The forgotten supermodel" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2009.

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• I was never over-weight, just under-tall. The correct height for my weight at the moment is seven feet ten and a half inches.

  Brendan Grace

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• Tall girls are hot. Short girls are cute.

  Harry Styles

  Cute, Girl, Hot

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• In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class.

  Mark Burnett

  Cutting, Europe, Class

  "Mark Burnett Started His Career Jumping Out Of Airplanes And Transporting Prisoners On Ships" by Stephen Chao, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laugh.

  Sutton Foster

  Kids, Thinking, Laughing

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Drowsy Chaperone's Sutton Foster Plus Pajama Game on Disc". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. May 12, 2006.

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• Girls of all kinds can be beautiful; from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned

  Tyra Banks

  Beautiful, Girl, Confidence

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• I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is far beyond even my imagination's flight. For me to long to grow into that Height - is this not a miracle? I am mortal. My thoughts, my deeds, my experiences - everything that I have and everything that I am - represent mortality. Yet despite everything that I have and everything that I am, I am longing for Immortality. Is this not a miracle?

  Sri Chinmoy

  Feet, Imagination, Long

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• I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on wires mounted like tin soldiers. Hours like tall ebony women with gongs between their legs, tolling continuously so that I could not count them. I heard the rolling of my heart-beats; I heard the footsteps of my dreams, and the beat of time was lost among them like the face of truth.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Heart, Ivory

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• If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and vitality and youthfulness and eternal vigor. It's only in our lifetime that running has become associated with fear and pain.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Pain, Motivation

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• There's a time I can recall
  Four years old and three feet tall
  Trying to touch the stars and the cookie jar
  And both were out of reach

  Hilary Weeks

  Stars, Years, Feet

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• From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless, staring at the house. The cab pulled away and rounded the corner of Thirty-sixty Street. Kinderman quickly pulled out to follow. As he turned the corner, he noticed that the tall old man hadn't moved but was standing under the streetlight glow, in mist, like a melancholy traveler frozen in time.

  William Peter Blatty

  Men, House, Black

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