#tracts

The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you. ↗

— Mike Oldfield

#biggest #biggest problems #feed #get #off

The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#dogged #exodus #jews #metaphor #outset

I don't pitch for contracts. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#i #pitch

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#contracts #employment #even #in the past #less

In all honesty, I'm not able to talk about contracts. It's nothing with 'American Idol' in particular, it's just things I really need to take care of in my life. ↗

— Mario Vazquez

#about #american #american idol #care #contracts

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#fiction writer #i #i write #novels #preacher

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

#fiction #irritates #life #perfection #well

I felt like my pregnancy was a sacred moment for me. I stayed in Boston and I didn't work apart from the contracts I have, and then I only let them use my face. ↗

— Gisele Bundchen

#boston #contracts #face #felt #i

The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next! ↗

— Jorja Fox

#contracts #day #long #may #next

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama. ↗

— Ang Lee

#american #attracts #because #desert #drama