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Jim Webb Quotes

When I left the Senate in January 2013, I decided to take a full year away from all media interviews, editorial articles, and direct political activities.

Jim Webb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 9, 1946

Topics

January Political Media Year Left

My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don't know how she managed it.

Jo Brand

Political Army Go Know Bright She

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.

Jeremy Paxman

Purpose World Generation Find Now

Long-term economic growth depends mainly on nonmonetary factors such as population growth and workforce participation, the skills and aptitudes of our workforce, the tools at their disposal, and the pace of technological advance. Fiscal and regulatory policies can have important effects on these factors.

Jerome Powell

Growth Tools Important Skills

There are so many male antiheroes but not nearly as many female antiheroes.There's a lot of pressure on female characters to be likable. That puts a lot of pressure on women to be likable.

Melissa Rauch

Women Pressure Many Female Likable

One of my biggest influences growing up was Jamie O'Brien. He was like an older brother to me.

John John Florence

Brother Me Growing Up Growing Up He

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.

Andy Goldsworthy

Stronger Stone Skin Stones Than

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

Jeaniene Frost

Fiction Things Favorite Things Vast

Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.

John Travolta

Good Writing You Mean Good Writing

There are fewer roles, and I've done so many things already that I don't want to repeat, so to find something you haven't done is harder. I don't want to play a country singer again.

Sissy Spacek

You Find Country Play Done Want

In the Marine Corps, I was used to people doing what they said and saying what they mean. There was a higher purpose and calling in the Corps. Everyone works toward accomplishing something together, and there's a common goal. In entertainment, the same isn't always true. You're in it for yourself in Hollywood.

Rob Riggle

Together Purpose Yourself People You

As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.

Robin S. Sharma

Comfort Zone You Comfort New Unknown

What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.

Jason Robert Brown

Work Great Best People Theatre You