I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.
Lord Mountbatten
Recitation: by Male by Female
I'm a pretty quiet person.
Mayim Bialik
QuietPersonPretty
I grew up with Bible stories, which are like fairy tales, because my father was a minister. We heard verses and prayers every day. I liked the gorier Bible stories. I did have a book of Chinese fairy tales. All the people except the elders looked like Italians. But we were not a family that had fiction books.
Amy Tan
FamilyFatherDayPeopleBookBible
That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.
Roger Ebert
BetterHelpThingsImagineUsThan
Tearing up a picture of the Pope comes under the heading of a Comedy Killer. It kind of breaks the spirit of the evening.
Lorne Michaels
EveningPictureComedyKindSpirit
As long as those things are on vinyl or tape or what have you, the record companies are going to release them someday.
Johnny Mathis
LongYouVinylReleaseThingsGoing
Stereotypes are convenient. And yet within them, everyone will say there's something that - you know, they don't come for no reason. It's just that it takes time to explore complexity.
Debra Granik
TimeYouKnowStereotypesSayWill
Once they become AKC registered, the newspapers will become flooded with ads for them. And you'll see Border collies in pet stores and animal shelters.
Donald McCaig
PetAnimalBorderYouWillBecome
Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.
Chris Rock
YouNervousAnythingSuckShould
I wanted to be a vet before I got into comedy, but then once I found out how much gore goes into that job, I wanted nothing to do with it.
Brian Posehn
JobComedyNothingOutGotFound
I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.
Anne Rivers Siddons
LiveCommunityCitySweetThinkYou
I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.
Alice Sebold
DailyPeopleMeThinkInteresting
It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.
Sean MacBride
LawNeverUsedRuleBetweenWeapons
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