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Shirley Knight Quotes

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

Shirley Knight

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Thought Picture Vanity Said Nice

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

Jean Paul

Myself Man More Out Stuff Made

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Steve Jobs

Innovation Money People You Apple

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

Tom Stoppard

You Expert Without Own Hold Against

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

Tom T. Hall

Tree Religion Sitting First Out Up

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Mary Kay Ash

Positive Great Enthusiasm Go Will

Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei and Assad are two sides of the same terror coin. Letting Assad continue to wield lethal power means that Tehran's terror network - from Hezbollah to the Houthis - will persist in threatening the West.

Mike Pompeo

Power Will Sides Two Same Coin

People say 'chick lit,' and what they mean is 'crap.' And so even though you might sell 100,000 copies of a book, you're never going to win a prize. These are books that people don't just read, they devour them - they stay up into the early hours because they want to devour them.

Lisa Jewell

People Win Book You Early Want

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.

Johnny Weir

Skating Elegant Audience Figure Very

The progressives like to talk a lot about poverty - and you should. However, it's the guys in the middle who have really been hurt by the global economy . The people at the bottom have been holding on to their jobs quite well, actually.

Chrystia Freeland

People Hurt Poverty You Talk Middle

When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn. There are also changes in your heart, your guts: they slow down. And there are hormonal changes.

Antonio Damasio

Heart Experience Sadness Slow Body

I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism.

Peter Singer

Find Intellectual Extraordinary Would

You do a play, or you go on set for the first day of filming: if you don't have nerves, and you don't have any kind of adrenalin pushing you forward, then something is wrong.

Mark Strong

Day Forward You Wrong Play Kind