#eve

The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#because #been #choice #high #high standards

I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I've never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment. ↗

— Rick Allen

#environment #fact #felt #free #happy

It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create. ↗

— Roland Allen

#create #creates #help #holy #holy spirit

As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#evening #fairy #happen #i #like

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#believed #believers #culture #eight #fact

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#also #believed #children #desire #disappears

I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#american #american citizen #bush #change #citizen

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#bad #did #everything #had #his

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#around #born #everyone #family #female

You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#challenged #disappointed #eye #fun #growing