I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.
Drew Barrymore
Recitation: by Male by Female
At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I was too ambitious musically to settle for it. And I wanted to gamble with whatever talent I might have had.
Andre Previn
TalentYearYouSettleMusically
During the four years I had spent in New York, I had achieved top status as a model and had worked for the best photographers and designers in the world. I had grown used to hearing that I was exotic and high-fashion.
Anjelica Huston
BestNew YorkWorldNewTopHearing
It was not me failing that I was scared of. It was failing those people back home who believe in you. They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games.
Johnny Bench
HomePeopleMeBelieveWeekYou
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Simone de Beauvoir
StupidImpossibleFaceOvercome
Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.
Robin Roberts
ChallengeYourselfMeThinkYou
Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it, too.
Lucien Bourjeily
TheatreEnoughYouPlayWantTouch
The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that they will fall.
Louis XIV
AmbitionLearnFallKingsWill
When I tried to get 'Stargate' made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio said, 'Sci-fi is dead. It's a dead genre. No one wants to see science fiction anymore.' And I had to go and raise the money independently to make that movie.
Dean Devlin
ScienceMoneyGoSaidHollywoodSee
I hope the EPA will listen to the many votes over the years in Congress opposing cap-and-trade and rescind that proposed rule.
Chris Gibson
HopeCongressWillListenOverRule
You don't always have to be a leader and be as vocal as I am. I'm sure some people would love it if I didn't talk as much as I did.
Chris Paul
LoveLeaderI AmPeopleYouTalk
You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.
Allan Dwan
YouShadowsLightsDisguiseSetAny
As Michael Scheuer, who ran the C.I.A.'s bin Laden unit until 1999, has pointed out, if bin Laden believed in Christmas, the Iraq war would be his perfect present from Santa Claus. The 9/11 attacks and the subsequent war in Afghanistan severely damaged bin Laden's organization.
Peter Bergen
WarOrganizationPresentPerfectOut
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