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Chris Gardner Quotes

I'm encouraged by what I see of men trying to be there for their children.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: February 9, 1954

Topics

Children Men Trying See I See

We deliver. We are consistent. Customers trust us. Our restaurants are cleaner than most. Our meats are natural, the bread is best in class, the chips are best in class, and we are a group of very systemized and disciplined operators.

Jimmy John Liautaud

Trust Best Bread Group Class Us

If people are offering help, it's because they want to and you have to let them do it. It just makes life so much easier. You just have to put your pride aside.

Life People Pride Help You Want

To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.

Passion Voice Two Opera Things Sing

The English National Opera does have some terrific productions, which are accessible, and they're not too ridiculously expensive.

Opera Expensive English Some Which

It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.

Father Childhood Happy Up Own Her

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

Love Age Getting Older Colors Reach

I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.

Life Stars Creative Believe Magic

If I was as relaxed as what I perceived myself to be, I would not be able to multi-task the way I multi-task.

Myself Way Relaxed Would Able

What I aspire to do, and what I try the hardest to do, is write stuff that's very personal in its way. I figure I can only say things the way I say them, so I'm trying to do something that is kind of anti-generic.

Jason Robert Brown

Trying I Can Say Kind Personal Way

Of course there were times, particularly when you travel, when it's very tough to leave the kids, particularly when they were very young. I would try to take them with me when I could just so they could experience and see a little bit of what a work day involved.

Work Experience Day Travel Me Tough

I was putting on a stiff upper lip and trying to fulfill the obligations I thought were demanded of me, taking over my father's role of taking care of my mother... and having to be the recipient of her confessions and emotions but of a delusional nature.

Nature Father Mother Me Thought

I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves.

People View Always Books Who About

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