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Bruce Springsteen Quotes

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

Bruce Springsteen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 23, 1949

Topics

Time Purpose Consistency Action Long

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Time Ideas Strange Did Certain

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

Andrew Young

Blessing Die You Nothing Because

As an actor, I've given up judgement of evil, as long as it's human evil - we have to see ourselves for what we really are, and we're capable of horrific things.

John Carroll Lynch

Evil Long Actor Human Capable See

The Chinese are much too sensible to like turkey - come to think of it, I don't think I've ever encountered turkey anywhere in East Asia, either in a market or on a menu.

John Lanchester

Think Menu Come Market Like Chinese

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

Alvin Toffler

Daughter Age Loss Tragedy Disease

Honestly, without art and dance, I think I would be a very safe, black-and-white thinker. I wouldn't dare to take any risks or see so much of the world in myself and other people!

Alyson Stoner

Art Myself Dance Risks People World

I hate it when the mother is just the mother in movies.

Toni Collette

Mother Hate Movies Just

Nobody but an idiot would pretend that they had an error-proof way of choosing the 'best' out of hundreds of perfectly qualified applicants - not for university or for anything.

Mary Beard

Best Idiot Nobody Way Out Anything

I think some people's comedy IQ's aren't as high as other people's, so they don't really know what's going on. Or they think they know what's going on, but they don't really.

Judah Friedlander

People Think Comedy Know High Going

I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.

Christian Louboutin

Work Age Crazy Fashion Design Never

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.

Ashwin Sanghi

Good Myself Words Research Writing

While I was writing 'The Big Girls,' I had to take a big breath each morning and calm myself sufficiently to once again enter that world. But friends tell me that it is the only thing that really interests me. They say that I like to be upset.

Susanna Moore

Morning Myself Me Writing World Say