#fat

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#ask #bend #books #characters #determines

I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#care #come #developed #fat #guy

Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers? ↗

— John Amery

#away #being #british #builders #destruction

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights. ↗

— Tori Amos

#father #king #marched #mind #much

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown. ↗

— Tori Amos

#clerical #collar #father #first #gay

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for. ↗

— Tori Amos

#because #church #daughter #fact #felt

Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#coast #course #drums #father #guitars

In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#because #big #big picture #book #certain

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#being #birth #constantly #disloyal #enjoying

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me? ↗

— Kojo Annan

#allegations #father #here #many #me