Janis Karpinski Quotes

It's hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 degree temperatures and nothing seems to be moving in a direction that you think or they think or you've been told it's supposed to be moving in.

Janis Karpinski

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HappyBe HappyMovingThinkYou

I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.

Jhumpa Lahiri

WorkNatureStoryThinkFirstIdea

When you are an actor or trying to be a working actor in L.A., most people have commercial agents, and then they have legitimate agents, and you just end up going on a thousand auditions.

Joel McHale

PeopleEndTryingYouActorUp

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.

Jennifer Granholm

SchoolLawImpactDesireKnowWay

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

Robert Metcalfe

AwayGatesGivethGrove

Whenever people are excited about 'My Girl', I always think if I met the kids from 'The Neverending Story.' I would probably be the same way.

Anna Chlumsky

GirlPeopleStoryThinkWayAlways

New Hampshire is different than Massachusetts. We have - well, we're the Live Free or Die state. We are independent.

Jeanne Shaheen

LiveFreeDieNewIndependentWell

Bach and Beethoven erected temples and churches on the heights. I only wanted to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.

Stephen Hough

HomeMenHappyFeelHeightsBuild

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

Tracey Emin

LifeMistakesMy LifeDrunkSober

I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

Ronnie Wood

MusicArtCreativePeopleThink

'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.

Rufus Wainwright

LoveExperienceSongKindOpera

Nobody says you have to be shackled to tradition.

Monica Johnson

TraditionYouNobodySaysShackled

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Denis Diderot

NatureReflectionCreativeThreeSee

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