Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
John Hersey
Recitation: by Male by Female
I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.
Jill Abramson
JobSchoolLosingDisappointmentYou
Broadcast TV has a very classy but old-fashioned way of doing television. That's what it's always going to be. But you've still got to introduce young talent and ideas and shows to the masses. That's the way you build a bigger and younger audience, introducing younger writers, comics, TV shows to viewers.
Jermaine Fowler
TalentIdeasDoingYouTelevision
As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.
John M. McHugh
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My winter uniform is jeans, boots, and an oversize blazer for good measure. It's my formula for getting dressed in under 10 minutes.
Jeanne Damas
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To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Ambrose Bierce
PositiveVoiceTopMistaken
When you're playing the part of a saxophone or a trumpet player, both of which I have done, it would be nice to be able to play like John Coltrane, but you can't. Your job is to do something else. And I'm not sure what it is, but I don't think I'd be acting Niels Bohr any better if I went and studied physics for five years.
Stephen Rea
JobThinkBetterYouPhysicsActing
Pink Floyd are one of a handful of bands I've listened to a lot and whose concerts I've been to. I love the experience. I don't dance; I just jig up and down like everybody else.
Tom Stoppard
LoveExperienceDancePinkDownUp
The more confident one becomes, the less one needs all people to be the same.
Jasmine Guy
PeopleConfidentMoreSameNeeds
The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for them to figure out how to play what they like when there's somebody up above them yelling 'you have to play this.'
Chris Isaak
MusicPeopleToughYouPlayRadio
Whatever happens, happens. Accept things and move on.
Corey Johnson
Move OnAcceptWhateverThingsMove
There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize you as forcibly as if a man had seized you by the shoulder! It should impress you like reality!
William Morris Hunt
LifeManRealityPictureYouSeize
My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.
Maria Semple
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