Douglas Brinkley Quotes

Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.

Douglas Brinkley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 14, 1960

Topics

AmericanEarlyPieNeverCapeShed

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

Angelina Jolie

ChildLossGreatestNightmare

It's quite pretentious, really, isn't it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.

Jean Dujardin

ThinkAnxietyYouToo MuchOver

September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

PainNew YorkTomorrowPeopleMe

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

Rudolf Otto

JusticeLieReligionSweetDeepNow

You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity.

Connie Chung

DiversityYouTelevisionNewsKnow

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

Connie Nielsen

CharacterTogetherSmartAnimalYou

'Star Wars' is very black and white, and honestly, I like it that way. But fantastical settings like that work best when the characters within them feel real. Real people have conflicts and make mistakes and get it wrong sometimes.

Claudia Gray

WorkBlack And WhiteBestMistakes

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

William Inge

ManBuildThroneSitMayHe

Since 1975, when I entered the Wharton Graduate School, I have belonged to a small group of economists who believe that the world does not contain a limited amount of physical resources. Quite the contrary, I believe that the world is a virtual cornucopia of physical resources.

Paul Zane Pilzer

SchoolWorldSmallBelieveGroup

It's like PlayStation-Xbox. I like both. So nothing against Mac, but I do use Windows.

Thomas Middleditch

WindowsNothingAgainstLikeUse

If you hold onto stuff, it holds on to you. It just weighs you down, and it's a waste of energy. Why would I waste my energy on being bitter and hating when I could be using it to go out and do some really good stuff, you know?

Tina Knowles

GoodEnergyYouDownGoKnow

Success is always something that you have to recover from.

Marsha Norman

SuccessYouAlwaysSomethingRecover

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