Susan Orlean Quotes

When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.

Susan Orlean

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WindowEatingHobbySundayStarbucks

I assumed when I was first selling the franchises that everyone would be as excited as I was to wake up in the morning to bake bread and slice vegetables.

Jimmy John Liautaud

MorningWake UpSellingVegetables

It's no secret that the blogosphere is more vicious on women than it is on men.

Meghan McCain

WomenMenMoreSecretThanVicious

I can't be as open on national television as I can when I'm having dinner with friends. But that doesn't mean the type of person I am is different. My values, my dislikes, my sense of humor are the same.

Matt Lauer

HumorI AmDinnerFriendsValues

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

Stephen Sondheim

Growing UpYouGrowingUpGotShow

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

Trent Reznor

WorkManMakeupOld ManWantNever

I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.

Roger Ailes

GoodTalentPeopleThinkPotential

It is so exciting to get a phone call saying you're going to be working on a Disney film.

Christina Hendricks

SayingYouPhonePhone CallGoing

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.

Art Blakey

ArtPeopleWorldAmericanAmerica

It's not an act, it's just my way.

Arthur Godfrey

WayActJust

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Pericles

KnowledgePowerIdeasBetterNever

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.

Shaun White

FamilySnowMountainsFunBrother

A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care.

Shane Leslie

LiveGreatGovernmentFightPeople

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