Allan Gurganus Quotes

People rich enough to redecorate every 10 months are certainly careless with antique furniture. I found four 1760 French side chairs, tapestry seats intact. Claiming them proved easier than persuading any cabdriver to transport the things.

Allan Gurganus

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The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

Jim Lehrer

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If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.

Amy Heckerling

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My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level.

Steven Holl

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Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and having a landlord's possessory rights - I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I'm upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I've worked with are pretty great.

Tony Kushner

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I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed.

Janis Karpinski

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I honestly think that it automatically hurts me if I said that I supported the war in Iraq and I support the troops. That automatically kills me for getting a bunch of movies, a bunch of TV shows. People don't want to hear from me.

Drew Carey

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I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?

Denis Leary

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I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty.

Douglas Alexander

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Everywhere I go, people ask me about Jennifer Aniston's wedding. Everywhere I go. I always say to her, I'm like, 'Being friends with you is a burden. You think it's hard to be friends with me?'

Chelsea Handler

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By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

Constance Baker Motley

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I think being true to yourself is ultimately the best way of living.

Coco Rocha

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From what I've read, everyone has a claim on Merlin. Was he Scottish, Welsh, English or even French? All these countries have got a big claim on him and Camelot. That's why the Arthurian legends are so popular - because they are such good stories.

Colin Morgan

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