Brenda Lee Quotes

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

Brenda Lee

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WomenFoundationRock And RollRock

If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed.

Michael Cunningham

BookLovedFeelYouWantMatter

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

John Ruskin

PrideDoneNothingWhichEverNobly

My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words.

John Updike

WordsTransitionPicturesOpposition

You need a community to succeed. In the back of every book is an acknowledgments page full of all the people it took to get that writer to the book you're holding.

Tomi Adeyemi

CommunityPeopleSucceedBookYou

As an adult, I've always tried to be a good person my whole life, so I've made good friends, and I've always built great relationships and been friendly with people. I always think what you do to others will come to you, so that's how I treat people.

Roman Reigns

LifeGoodGreatPeopleTreatThink

I have lots of heroes and heroines, mostly unsung and including my husband.

Mary Beard

HusbandHeroesHeroinesIncluding

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

Michelangelo Antonioni

StructureRhythmOwnScene

I wasn't ready to be a dog's mother! Trust me, I'm completely unfit and irresponsible. I'm a comic that travels 48 weeks a year, but I make it work, so you can, too.

Lisa Lampanelli

WorkDogMotherTrustMeYear

A great economy requires great public schools.

Doug Ducey

GreatEconomyPublicSchools

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

Christopher Walken

MusicAgeDanceAmazingChanceYou

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

William Hazlitt

GreatPrideLookBackFameLiving

I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.

Peter Sellers

FeelBecomeScreenAgainI Feel

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