#petite

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No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.


Anthony Minghella


#appetite #cold #english #hollywood #mountain

Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.


Gregory Maguire


#appetite #evil #life

Happiness is our natural state of being that cannot be found in anything external.


Christopher Dines


#christopher-dines-quotes #la-petite-fleur-publishing #manifest-your-bliss #nature

It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.


Galt Niederhoffer


#books #cruel #discussing #dissecting #driving

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.


Leon Wieseltier


#commitments #far #genuine #identifies #matters

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.


Jeannette Walls


#age #big #blonde #clumsy #cute

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.


Robin G. Collingwood


#desire #even #intention #object #only

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.


Christopher Lasch


#appetite #appropriation #child #comes #desire

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.


Anne Morrow Lindbergh


#appetite #enjoy #existing #future #glorious

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.


Jose Marti


#death #glory #innate #insatiable #instinct