Firmine Jean Baptiste Quotes

#1. To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don't have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they are and not as the predominantly liberal and humanist literary establishment believes that they ought to be.

John Braine

#2. A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

Jack Nicholson

#3. I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.

Aimee Bender

#4. Just make sure you're fighting for the right stuff. Don't destroy yourself for something ... someone ... who isn't going to fight just as hard for you.

Melissa Pearl

#5. But I had loved him. I loved him longer and truer than I had anyone in my whole life and I would probably never love anyone that way again. Which to be honest was almost a relief.

Jenny Han

#6. When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural.

Michel Hazanavicius

#7. I tell myself your spirits were down the day you wrote. You're fine and we're fine. I hope it's true.

Ann Brashares

#8. The key to a healthy life is having a healthy mind.

Richard Davidson

#9. Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.

Ann Patchett

#10. How hard it is for people to live without someone to look down upon-really to look down upon. It is not just that they feel cheated out of someone to hate. It is that they are compelled to look more closely into themselves and what they don't like about themselves.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#11. Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.

Anne Sweeney