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My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis, ~ Drew Barrymore

One of my favorite things is watching my children learn something new. The combination of innocence and excitement makes a parent feel truly alive, even if only for a second and peripherally. ~ Michael Adam Hamilton

I think it's cool when Scorsese will pop up in a movie or something like that. I never want to make a career out of that or anything. I like directing. That's my favorite thing. ~ Jody Hill

Chicken pot pie
those are my three favorite things. ~ Pablo Francisco

I always say one of my favorite things about making movies is finishing on that last day because I get to have my life back and let that go, and hopefully have a real sense of accomplishment at the end of it. ~ Mark Wahlberg

My favorite thing about going to concerts has always been looking around and thinking that there's a lot of people in here that are very much like me, a lot of people in here I could have a full conversation with. ~ Jason Isbell

My two favorite things about being a pro player are Sunday afternoons being able to excite many fans and the money because I get to treat my family and friends and myself to nice things. ~ Dante Hall

Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me. ~ Ed Helms

I think my favorite thing is the mystery of life - it makes you feel that much better about accomplishing something. ~ Jonny Lang

There's never been a blueprint, I just keep exploring doors as they open. But whenever people would ask me what's my favorite thing to do, it was sitting in for Larry King. ~ Drew Pinsky

One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures. ~ Jeaniene Frost

My favorite thing to hear from people is, 'I left the theater and couldn't stop thinking about it.' You want your work to have an impact after they leave the theater. It's the equivalent of leaving a musical humming a show tune. ~ Marin Ireland

I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do, so it's usually not too, too hard. ~ Karen Russell

Interacting with fans has become one of my favorite things. ~ Jade Hassoune

One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense. ~ Bill Simmons

One of my favorite things that Yahoo does on a regular basis is this story: "Wealthiest Rap Artists." That's an example of the internet just perpetuating this myth that we're all just sitting around in these mansions like Steven Tyler, bopping around in our swimming pool. It's bullshit. ~ DJ Shadow

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it. ~ Jackson Browne

I don't really cook much. I'm more of a baker. My favorite things to bake that everybody loves, and I can only keep in the house for about ten minutes, are 7-Up cake and Pineapple Upside-Down cake. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

My favorite thing in moviemaking is to shoot in chronological order if at all possible, because it just helps for continuity and all the logistical purposes. It also helps with performance and the journey of each character, but I also think it's good for the director and everyone [else] involved. ~ Zoe Bell

I've never had my own accent in a film. It's something I schedule into my preparation. That's one of my favorite things, hearing all the voices. ~ Andrea Riseborough

I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do 'Parks and Recreation'; a big fun character. ~ Ben Schwartz

Without question, of the heterosexual men that I've spoken to over the years, that's usually - they say, you know, my favorite thing you've ever done was Linda or Sophie. And they were a particular kind of very feminine, recessive kind of personality. So they fell in love with her, but they didn't feel the story through her body. ~ Meryl Streep

I only do two things in my life, and that's take care of my kids and work. Fortunately, these are my favorite things to do, so it works out. ~ Paula Poundstone

My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it's mobile meditation. ~ Robin Williams

My favorite thing to cook is anything that comes out okay. I'm very fond of certain pastas and sauces that I can just about cook from scratch. So those are what I like to cook, as well as roasted potatoes and chicken. Anything that tastes alright. ~ Chiwetel Ejiofor

Next to sex my favorite thing is laughing - it's part of sex. Make me laugh - I'll love you. ~ Penny Marshall

I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too. ~ Natasha Bedingfield

These are a few of my favorite things. ~ Oscar Hammerstein II

The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done. ~ Jackson Browne

I know what a good question would be for an actor. What's your least favorite thing that you've ever heard an actor say about acting? Or about being in a movie? ~ Kathleen Hanna

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches. ~ Andre Leon Talley

I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place. ~ Max Irons

A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and look through architecture books and interior design books. Something about the aesthetics of space and beautiful images works with my brain. ~ St. Lucia

One of my favorite things about watching the reruns is looking at my clothes. I don't really remember most of them, so it's like looking at old family photos. ~ Alyssa Milano

One of my favorite things - and I am sure everybody else's in this Chamber - is to give away money. You really don't get much opposition when you give away money. ~ Michael Enzi

My favorite thing in the whole is getting to work with the actors. ~ Rob Letterman

I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me. ~ Lance Bass

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things. ~ J. Cole

Drag shows are one of my favorite things in the world. As a straight man I love going to gay bars. People at gay bars just love to dance. ~ Steve Kazee

One of my favorite things to do within horror is explore this feeling that a lot of people seem to have from time to time, of there being currents of another reality running beneath, or alongside, what we see and interact with every day. ~ Brian Hodge

There is no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things! ~ Oprah Winfrey

My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market. ~ Amy Sedaris

I'd have to say my favorite thing about working on the show, and something that might be intriguing to other people, is that it's just such an amazingly welcoming environment to work in. ~ Donal Logue

I just love to act. It's my favorite thing to do in the world, and what keeps it interesting, to me, is the creative challenge. So, different kinds of characters, that's what I just love to do. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I have one girlfriend who is dating right now - she's divorced - and she's on Tinder, so we play Tinder. I know that's not a real game, but it's my favorite thing to do. ~ Aisha Tyler

I love coffee. It's one of my favorite things in the world, and I love tasting different coffees. ~ Max Schneider

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. ~ Penn Jillette

My parents know I was outgoing as a child, and whenever people came over I'd automatically do impressions of them as soon as they left; it was my mom's favorite thing. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio

My favorite thing to steal is a kiss. You can get arrested for it but they can't force you to give it back. ~ Daniel Tosh

I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do. ~ L'Wren Scott

I love barbecue, it's my favorite thing to eat. ~ David Nail

I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon! ~ Catherine Bell

My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song. ~ Bernie Taupin

My favorite thing is landscaping. I love landscaping. And so what I'll do is, mostly I put language into search engines, and if I want to look, like, at tulip gardens, or, like, Georgian gardens, i love English gardens, how they're laid out. Japanese gardens, Asian gardens. So, I'm kind of a frustrated landscaper. ~ Michele Bachmann

Touring is one of my favorite things about what I get to do. ~ T. Mills

I love shopping. It's one of my favorite things to do with friends! My favorite stores are H&M, J.Crew, Gap, and Nordstrom. ~ Amy Rodriguez

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me. ~ Anne Hathaway

Trying on jeans is my favorite thing. Maybe later I can get a pap smear from an old male doctor. ~ LIZ

My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas and asking myself questions, looking outside myself for them and researching and getting to the bottom of something and being creative with it as an actor and how to express it in a creative fashion. That's my favorite part. And, the actual acting of it. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

I love performing live: it's my very favorite thing to do. ~ Lil' Romeo

I definitely think that with music my favorite thing about Nashville is that it's a music hub that accepts and allows all genres to be present, and I think there's been a kind of fusing of genres lately that for me makes me really happy and excited. ~ Taylor Swift

Coats are my favorite thing, and it's always cold in England. I'm comfortable spending a bit of money if you know you're going to be wearing it 10 years later. ~ Max Irons

I was always that girl growing up who you could find dancing down supermarket aisles. It's that sense of not feeling inhibited. Dancing in supermarkets is my favorite thing. ~ Florence Welch

I love watching comedies. It's my favorite thing to watch and it always lifts my spirits. ~ LeToya Luckett

I love watching, I love getting all the science about food. That's one of my favorite things. ~ Guy Fieri

Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day. ~ Kristin Scott Thomas

I think that, for me, my favorite thing to do is perform standup onstage. Everything else I do is for the exposure to do more stand-up onstage, and for the money, and for the health insurance. ~ Jen Kirkman

I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing. It's one of my favorite thing to do, so I'm attracted to it for many reasons. ~ Kelly Stables

People who text a lot are not my favorite thing. ~ Penny Marshall

I've always loved playing solo. I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music. My favorite thing is usually whatever I'm doing right there and then. ~ Glen Hansard

I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things. ~ Mae Whitman

My favorite thing to do is transform. The further the character is away from me the more I enjoy it. ~ Erica Schroeder

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music. ~ Taylor Swift

Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when. ~ Augusten Burroughs

Well my favorite thing about being a mom is getting to relive your childhood all over again, that's one of my favorite things. And my favorite thing about being a wife? I have more freedom to just be crazy, because he's already stuck with me. ~ Nicole Richie

One of my favorite things as a teenage girl was getting dressed up to go to shows. ~ Bethany Cosentino

My favorite thing of all time is a New York City weekend when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park. ~ Idina Menzel

My favorite thing that God gives is grace. It is without performance, free in Christ. ~ Luci Swindoll

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE ~ Whoopi Goldberg

I definitely think it [the key to maintain success] is a number of things. It's having the right people behind you. It's having the right work ethic. It's having the right mind-set. And it's also a little bit of luck. ~ Jordin Sparks

You can get things out of acting with someone a second time around that you don't necessarily get the first time because you're more familiar, more comfortable. ~ Rosamund Pike

There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened. ~ Mary Kay Ash

Happiness isn't what happens when you whistle along, pretending bad things don't exist ... Happiness is earned, like everything else. It's achieved. ~ Marisa De Los Santos

I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and conscious emotional responses to being alive ... The kind of esteem that's given to brightness/smartness obliterates average people or slow learners from participating fully in human life, particularly technical and intellectual life. But you cannot exclude any human being from emotional participation. ~ Ntozake Shange

God, I don't want to look at my phone anymore. I don't want this to be a distraction. My friends hear from You. I want to hear from You, too. I want to pray like they pray. I don't want to spend my time engaging in useless things. There is more for me to do. God, what am I supposed to do? What do you have for me? Let me focus on that, ~ Sunshine Rodgers

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on. ~ Citium Zeno

Fear is like a ten-cent magician. If you watch the trick a couple of times, you see the flaws and you know how the magician is doing it. But the first time, that same trick looks good. When we're scared, we don't always think things through. We react. It's human nature. Fear can make the wrong decision feel right. By then, it's too late. ~ Kami Garcia

But on Thursday only the committed regulars are there, and they do what they do on Thursday, delving into pagan rituals of worship to the amber gods that let you see to the lurching anger that spins you round and round at the center of things beyond lines and angles and the very floorboards become crazy under your feet so that the floor goes YAAAWW up again down again and suddenly tunk! it hits you on the forehead and your nose bleeds and you cling to it so that you don't begin to slip down it and fetch up against the wall where you were dancing before with all the women in your life who have now vanished and left you alone here and the swaying candelabra are like careening galaxies burning into the back of your head; you don't dare to roll over on your back and look straight into all those stars or you will be blinded; and from the cool floor and the smell of your own puke you gain more and more understanding of the universe. ~ William T. Vollmann

Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates! ~ Brother Lawrence

I tell you, if you feel strange,
strange things will happen to you:
Fallen peacocks on library shelves ~ Rita Dove

...that, to repeat what I heard for years and years and suspect you've been hearing over and over, yourself, something's meaning is nothing more or less than its function. Et cetera et cetera et cetera. Has she done the thing with the broom with you? No? What does she use now? No. What she did with me--I must have been eight, or twelve, who remembers--was to sit me down in the kitchen and take a straw broom and start furiously sweeping the floor, and she asked me which part of the broom was more elemental, more fundamental, in my opinion, the bristles or the handle. The bristles or the handle. And I hemmed and hawed, and she swept more and more violently, and I got nervous, and finally when I said I supposed the bristles, because you could after a fashion sweep without the handle, by just holding on to the bristles, but couldn't sweep with just the handle, she tackled me, and knocked me out of my chair, and yelled into my ear something like, 'Aha, that's because you want to sweep with the broom, isn't it? It's because of what you want the broom for, isn't it?' Et cetera. And that if what we wanted a broom for was to break windows, then the handle was clearly the fundamental essence of the broom, and she illustrated with the kitchen window, and a crowd of the domestics gathered; but that if we wanted the broom to sweep with, see for example the broken glass, sweep sweep, the bristles were the thing's essence. No? What now, then? With pencils? No matter. Meaning as fundamentaln ~ David Foster Wallace

Focus your attention upon yourselves. Do not focus your attention upon other things - that is, what you have cast away from yourselves. Do not return to eat what you have vomited. Do not be moth-eaten, do not be worm-eaten, for you have already gotten rid of that. Do not be a place for the devil, for you have already destroyed him. Do not strengthen what stands in your way, what is collapsing, to support it. One who is lawless is nothing. Treat the lawless one more harshly than the just one, for the lawless does what he does because he is lawless, but the just does what he does with people because he is righteous. Do the Father's will, then, for you are from him. ~ Marvin W. Meyer

To be a successful missionary one must have the Spirit of the Lord. We are also taught that the Spirit will not dwell in unclean tabernacles. Therefore, one of the first things a missionary must do to gain spirituality is to make sure his own personal life is in order. ~ Ezra Taft Benson

Imagine my surprise, my ditress, when one of our regular patrons raced screaming into camera range,her Templeton Spa robe flapping open, her eyes wild as she sputtered accusations about being attacked-bodily attacked-by Laura Templeton Ridgeway and her cohorts."
"Oh,Josh,I'm so sorry." Laura turned her head away, hoping he'd take it for shame.It would never,never do to laugh. He showed his teeth. "One snicker,Laura. Just one."
"I'm not snickering." Composed,she turned back."I'm terribly sorry.It must have been very embarrassing for you."
"And don't it just be a laugh riot when they run that little scene?Of course, they'll beep out most of the dialogue to conform to Standards and Practices, but I think the viewing audience, the millions of people who tune into Informed each week will get the gist."
"She started it," Kate said,then winced when he turned flinty eyes on her. "Well,she did."
"I'm sure Mom and Dad will understand that completely." Even the stalwart Kate could be cowed."It was Margo's idea."
Margo hissed through her teeth. "Traitor.She called Kate a lesbian."
Shaking his head,Josh covered his face with his hands and rubbed hard."Oh, well,then, get the rope."
"I suppose you'd have let her get away with it.She's been trying to damage the shop.She said nasty things to Laura," Margo went on,heating up. "And just the other day she came into the shop and called me a slut. A second-class slut."
"And your answer was to gang up on ~ Nora Roberts

After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and Eve did when they ate the fruit was to discover that they had no clothes on. They were embarrassed. Embarrassment was the first consequence of the Fall. And embarrassment was the first literary consequence of this modernist discovery of the surface. Am I telling a story? Oh my God, this is terrible. I must stop telling a story and focus on the minute gradations of consciousness as they filter through somebody's ... ~ Philip Pullman

When you can't imagine how things are going to change, that doesn't mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are unimaginable. ~ Bruce Sterling

Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half. ~ Jason Bateman

When I looked up at my father as a boy, I thought being a man was having control. Being the master and commander of your own destiny. How could any boy know that freedom is lost the moment you become a man. Things start to count. To press in. Constricting slowly, inevitably, creating a cage of inconveniences and duties and deadlines and failed plans and lost friends. I ~ Pierce Brown

Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, 'I have lost it' and instead say, 'It has been returned to where it came from.' Why should it be any concern of yours who gives your things back to the world that gave them to you? The important thing is to take great care with what you have while the world lets you have it. ~ Epictetus

She was obviously useful at the UN because she had a public persona before she ever got there. She was well known. She was a spokeswoman for many important things. When she got there, what she said was paid attention to, undoubtedly much more than would have been if just Joe Blow had been made our representative to the United Nations. In that sense, I think it was useful to have her there. ~ William A. Rusher