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The fame stuff, the kind words from websites and things, are very flattering and lovely, but I just wanna act.


Matthew Lewis

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KELLY JONES All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches...
E. L. JAMES Walking with Daisy from the dining hall, Matthew murmured, “Will I have to scale the outside wall ...
LISA KLEYPAS I just wanna drink chocolate milk with my lovely!
WALTER MITTY I love ripped jeans! They are flattering. I'm very petite, so I think they make my butt look lov...
ARIANA GRANDE He had gone again and, emboldened by his first successful trip, had chosen a different sort of world...
ALAN RYAN Fame and success are very different things.
ENYA We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL You'll get wet," Daisy protested, glancing at his shirtsleeves and waistcoat.
He began to laugh...
LISA KLEYPAS Her nerves, sated as they were, stirred beneath the caress of his fingertips. “Matthew…what will...
LISA KLEYPAS I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest respo...
FAY WRAY All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this w...
C.S. LEWIS Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.
NINON DE LENCLOS Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very...
RACHEL PLATTEN Do you like that?” he whispered.
“Yes, I…” She fought to speak between helpless gasps....
LISA KLEYPAS Companionably he handed her a small glass filled with rich, plum-red liquid.
Receiving it with ...
LISA KLEYPAS She felt a pang of excitement as she realized it was not Mr. Hunt but Matthew Swift.
He rose fr...
LISA KLEYPAS I say," Llandrindon remarked, "your performance at bowls is exceptional, Miss Bowman. I've never see...
LISA KLEYPAS I say," Llandrindon remarked, "your performance at bowls is exceptional, Miss Bowman. I've never see...
LISA KLEYPAS Swift returned her scowl with an implacable glance. "Never do an enemy a small injury."
"Only y...
LISA KLEYPAS At the conclusion of the vows, despite Mercedes’s previous stern admonitions that the groom was LISA KLEYPAS Daisy pulled away from Swift’s grasp. “You’ve changed,” she said, trying to collect herself....
LISA KLEYPAS Why didn’t the others help you?” Daisy asked angrily, scrubbing the sleeve of her gown over her ...
LISA KLEYPAS Ironically,” she commented, “this will be the first time I’ve ever done anything to please my ...
LISA KLEYPAS I have to leave,” he whispered against her hair.
“No, stay.” Her face turned, her lips n...
LISA KLEYPAS Gibberish rap is - I freestyle all the time, just hangin' out with friends. And sometimes when I...
HANNIBAL BURESS I've heard that before. It's always very flattering to hear, but I'm not sure if I quite buy it. It'...
ALYSON HANNIGAN There is no greater torture than being forced to watch as your love, your reason for living, breathi...
QUINN LOFTIS Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the v...
JEFF BUCKLEY I wanna make weird stuff.
FLUME I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf...
ALICE SEBOLD I don't know if I'm a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mai...
CHRISTOPHER PARKER "Dying and being born are the very same thing but it's the outcome of the act that determines how we...
ED BULEY Before 'Twilight,' occasionally I would get the 'Hey are you that girl from that movie?&...
NIKKI REED Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things
WALT DISNEY COMPANY When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me...
GARY F EVANS... I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater.
L.J. SMITH And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,...
MONTY PYTHON I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I d...
CANDACE BUSHNELL Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW...
ROALD DAHL Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte]
SEX AND THE CITY When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long t...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford]
SEX AND THE CITY I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then repli...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first ...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill!
SEX AND THE CITY I love you, but I love myself more.
SEX AND THE CITY Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne...
SEX AND THE CITY Desperate Housewives.
SEX AND THE CITY Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Ca...
SEX AND THE CITY I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria]
SEX AND THE CITY I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ...
SEX AND THE CITY I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the worl...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playi...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda]
SEX AND THE CITY the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.
SEX AND THE CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
SEX AND THE CITY Maybe we should get married.[Charlotte] Alrighty.[Trey]
SEX AND THE CITY My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry abou...
SEX AND THE CITY Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story.
SEX AND THE CITY No lady likes to dance or dine, accompanied by a porcupine. Burma Shave.
SEX AND THE CITY I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS What's the big mystery? It's my vagina, not the sphinx! [Miranda]
SEX AND THE CITY My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson.
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not relig...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS the lights fade to black.
SEX AND THE CITY Yeah, I would love to. I don't know if I'd do another singing one.
SEX AND THE CITY Bellhop: "this is a non-smoking floor."Carrie: "I have an addiction sir!"
SEX AND THE CITY F*** me badly once, shame on you. F*** me badly twice, shame on me.
SEX AND THE CITY Hasty Pudding is no small potatoes (sorry to mix the food references), known for its famous alumni a...
SEX AND THE CITY I knew I wanted a handbag, but they were so pricey. I love Marc Jacobs.
SEX AND THE CITY All other documents in the Getty's possession that could in any way be relevant to the Italian inves...
SEX AND THE CITY 'Rome' vital to HBO TV empire.
SEX AND THE CITY Sex and the City.
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SEX AND THE CITY When an opportunity comes, I don't question it. I grab it, drop its ring on the nightstand and swing...
SEX AND THE CITY Having money isn't the answer but it makes your life a hell of a lot nicer. If you have the choice t...
SEX AND THE CITY Despite the fact that there are over eight million people on the island of Manhattan, there are time...
SEX AND THE CITY When Charlotte really liked somebody she said their whole name. It helped her picture their future m...
SEX AND THE CITY I love you but it's not my job to fix your finances. [Charlotte]
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MATTHEW ARNOLD Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise.
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MATTHEW DESMOND We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable h...
MATTHEW DESMOND Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
MATTHEW HENRY Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the tri...
MATTHEW HENRY In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog yo...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify t...
MATTHEW STEWART Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your ange...
MATTHEW PRIOR I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address ho...
MATTHEW DESMOND I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information.
MATTHEW YGLESIAS He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you t...
MATTHEW SWEET To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation,...
MATTHEW SCULLY I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone h...
MATTHEW VAUGHN I've been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mell...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do i...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by hi...
MATTHEW HENRY There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So th...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photog...
MATTHEW MODINE I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - m...
MATTHEW WEINER Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLD My rule is to break one sweat a day.
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