Shannon Lucid Quotes

Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready.

Shannon Lucid

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LifeStarsMy LifeAttentionYou

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Jessamyn West

PeopleYouTrainWillRealAnything

I try consciously to keep myself entertained and challenged to not repeat myself at all. Like, when I start a new book, my goal is to pretty much throw out what I've done and try something completely different that I think initially I cannot do.

Jennifer Egan

MyselfStartBookThinkGoalNew

The theatre always seems to be in trouble but always thriving. It's deeply comical to me that we agonize about our crap football teams and indifferent Test sides when in front of our noses is a great world success story that no one's interested in apart from those who work in it.

Melvyn Bragg

WorkSuccessGreatFootballTheatre

Was there ever anyone more ill-suited for being the showman of the year than me?

John Landgraf

MeYearMoreBeingThanEver

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

Steve Martin

MomentDayLaughterMeLaughYou

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

I AmYouKnowNowWhyTell

I couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad - I couldn't even use a pen.

Missy Elliott

PenBadNervousWriteSystemEven

There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted to tell story until it was over. But then there came a time where I was like, 'No, I want to understand something through writing this that I might have not understood before. I want people to come away with something to think about.'

Joss Whedon

TimePeopleWritingStoryThink

I learned to surf for 'Soul Surfer.' Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

Dennis Quaid

SoulGolfWaveMagicYouDown

I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.

Demetri Martin

Growing UpComedyFriendsKnowBig

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

Coretta Scott King

WomenSoulBelieveYouBecomeMust

From the beginning of puberty, I did really badly in school. I was super dyslexic; I was in special ed. I had a hard time reading and writing, so I thought that my self worth was in my looks, how I presented myself, and how other people perceived me.

Petra Collins

TimeMyselfBeginningSchoolPeople

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