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Roy Clark Quotes

Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.

Roy Clark

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: american
Birth: April 15, 1933

Topics

Family Children Sports Job Travel

What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe.

Joan Collins

Work Hard Work Training School Weird

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

John Lydon

Me End You Feeling Up Count

Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.

Jonathan Kozol

Life Opportunity Children Childhood

So many people, you know, they're just worried about, you can't say something bad about Obama, not because you actually have a strong stance against his platform, but because that makes you a racist.

Donald Trump, Jr.

People Strong You Bad Know Say

I fly an aeroplane, and I think a lot about how much I do not want ever to run into an optimistic air traffic controller. I just don't. I want a guy down there who's just waiting for the worst crash possible and petrified that it's going to happen on his watch. And then I feel safe flying into his territory.

Sydney Pollack

Waiting Fly Flying Think Feel Down

Any New Yorker who even thinks of voting for Ted Cruz should have their head examined, Really, here's a guy who refused to sign onto the 9/11 health care act for the cops and firemen. Here's a guy who talks about New York values.

Peter T. King

Health New York Care Voting Values

To bear is to conquer our fate.

Thomas Campbell

Fate Conquer Bear Our

'Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them.

Nnedi Okorafor

Women Culture Death Face Push Pull

I am still very observant. I am absorbed by people and why they do what they do.

Marianne Elliott

I Am People Why Still Observant Am

I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode.

Martin Gore

Rock Star Rock Two Lead Star Mode

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

Leon Spinks

Through Lived Got Glad Hit Lot

Every performer wants to sing live. That's what I live for.

Leona Lewis

Live Sing Wants Every Performer