Amity Shlaes Quotes

If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader. A president for many people is a serious thing and they want to know everything.

Amity Shlaes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1960

Topics

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I came of age during the Golden Age of rom coms - like the '90s and 2000s - there were so many.

Jenny Han

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I think to be afraid is very important. It's to save your life, too. And over the years, each of us, and all my colleagues, we developed certain antennas. I can't really say why I don't want to go right or left. It's a feeling, and I trust mostly my feelings.

Anja Niedringhaus

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We invest very heavily in the employees. We get the return, and the employee gets the return if they stay with us for a while. So, we focus on people that will commit to us for the long run.

Aneel Bhusri

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I looked into putting 'Doctor' on my license. But the insurance premium is higher, so I don't think I'll bother.

John Tiffany

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I've worn wigs. I've done a few plays where I have to wear a wig because they needed longer hair.

Stark Sands

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The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

Trip Adler

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The first thing I do in the editing room is the 'radio edit,' where you listen to the dialogue and don't even look at the visuals. The rhythm, the music of the comedy, has to work.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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The desire to write grows with writing.

Desiderius Erasmus

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Most of the women placed in the fire department here in New York never passed the physical test. And a fat guy or a short guy, or anybody not passing the test in a life-or-death job, leads to friction.

Denis Leary

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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Chinua Achebe

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I need theatre for my equilibrium, because in theatre the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity - you are more independent. There is not the narcissism, maybe, that you find in cinema.

Clotilde Hesme

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I would hope somebody out there will still want to hear a Backstreet Boys song when I'm 50-something.

Brian Littrell

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