Alicia Witt Quotes

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

Alicia Witt

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LifeGoodCreativeYouPersonal

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

FreedomPowerTrustMenManFree

I was shooting the third season of 'The Big C' and doing 'The Normal Heart' at the same time on Broadway, and I thought, 'I'll never do anything as difficult as this.'

John Benjamin Hickey

HeartTimeThoughtDoingNeverBig

Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.

Amy Waldman

CharacterGreatImaginationWriting

I'm a flower gardener.

Sissy Spacek

FlowerGardener

I've been an entrepreneur since I was 18. I started a company with a bunch of buddies that got funded in my senior year, and that's when I finished school. It was called Scour, a peer-to-peer service, file-sharing.

Travis Kalanick

ServiceSchoolYearEntrepreneurGot

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

Luis Fonsi

SongwritingWholeMakeAlbumAlbums

I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And that's what gets people to buy in to your brand - being a winner.

Chris Paul

PeopleMeBasketballWinBrandPlay

The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling.

Claire Messud

WomenTelevisionNewsYoungFilm

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

Chuck Schumer

HealthCareDecisionsInsuranceSee

Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.

Pierce Brosnan

BusinessPeopleYouDownCreate

I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.

Pierre Omidyar

CarInterestingYouWealthNowBuy

I've known since I was five that I wanted to be a writer.

Svetlana Alexievich

FiveWriterWantedKnownSince

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