Arthur Godfrey Quotes

If I go to a seminar and someone like you or someone like him is talking, I'm never part of the group that rushes him directly afterward. I always wait in the back corner with my head down until everyone is gone, and then I go up and do my thing.

Arthur Godfrey

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WaitSomeoneTalkingYouBackDown

As an actor, you think to yourself, 'I want to do good work,' but you also want the work that you do to make an impact in some way.

Jimmy Smits

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I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works.

John Carney

RainAmazingBornStarLikeDolls

Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.

Jeffrey Jones

ChangeTimeMeWorldPolitical

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

Steve Coogan

WorkSuccessCulturePrivacyBecome

Television is a different challenge; it is not a stage. But each opportunity that I have to learn I learn, and I take the opportunity to work.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

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I don't take anything Hillary Clinton is going to say at all as true. I'm not going to take her on her word.

Mike Cernovich

SayTrueAnythingTakeHerGoing

There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.

Jon Landau

WorkTimeArroganceResistanceSame

I was a punk rocker. A full-bore, 1st-generation punk.

Derf

PunkRocker

I say to people all the time, it is OK to fail. Some of the greatest successes in the history of America started out as failures.

Chris Gardner

HistoryTimePeopleAmericaSayOut

I think George just nailed the whole thing, the whole time period, the whole look and feel of what that newsroom was like. I did a lot of research for the role and believe me, it's all pretty genuine, down to the very last cigarette butt.

David Strathairn

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It becomes obvious when people are sincere in their criticism and when they're not. I've learned over time that people will always have something to say.

Ciara

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I'm asked all the time, 'Doesn't it feel great to finish the novel?' And the answer to that is, 'No.' It's sort of a loss to stop a 10-year project, which is an imaginary project in the sense that it's a work of my imagination.

Bob Shacochis

WorkGreatTimeImaginationLoss

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