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Shirley Knight Quotes

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: July 5, 1936

Topics

Me Career Acting Through Rough Pull

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

Me Born I Was Born Slum

I am utterly opposed to all equivocation or obscure expressions in our public acts. We are bound to say plainly what we mean to say. If we mean negotiation and compromise, let us say it distinctly and plainly instead of sending to the President a resolution on which he may put whatever interpretation he pleases.

John C. Calhoun

I Am Compromise Resolution Say Mean

Sounding bitter is not a good look. Less so if you're retired.

Good You Look Bitter Less Retired

One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Back Say Lying Keep Would Melodies

I'm not one of those who thinks the only way to fix what's wrong with American education is to throw more money at it. We also need to do it much better.

Education Money Better American Way

My friends and family are amazed I've done so well. I was not a model student. No one expected that I'd build a Fortune 500 company at Symantec.

John W. Thompson

Family Friends And Family Friends

After the Soviet withdrawal, many Afghan Communists had rebranded themselves as Islamists and joined the mujahedeen.

Soviet Afghan Themselves Many After

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Learning Curiosity Doing Open Being

When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.

Music Teen World End Language Wave

Designing was an effortless exercise and something I always enjoyed.

Exercise Always Something Effortless

I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.

Jay Alan Sekulow

Legal You Lawyers Pay Tell Pretend

They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.

Janis Karpinski

Money People Prison Cut Transfer

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