Thomas Mallon Quotes

I've long been interested in the role of 'minor characters' in major events. This has been the focus of a lot of the fiction and nonfiction I've written.

Thomas Mallon

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Sun Cellular is the biggest investment in my business career.

John Gokongwei

BusinessSunCareerInvestment

I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable.

Jeff Bingaman

I AmPersonBeyondToolWhereFar

Doors open to you every time you get a different role. So, yeah, the research is my passion; that's why I keep doing it.

Michael Hogan

PassionTimeResearchDoorsDoing

I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'

Michael Clarke Duncan

DreamsPeopleTrueHollywoodTell

I went through a phase where I wanted to be a writer... but it's not social enough.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

EnoughThroughSocialWhereWriter

Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

Steven Biko

AloneLiePeopleBelieveSecurity

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.

Trevor Nunn

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If you take into account prisoners, a large majority of African American men in some urban areas, like Chicago, have been labeled felons for life. These men are part of a growing undercaste - not class, caste - a group of people who are permanently relegated, by law, to an inferior second-class status.

Michelle Alexander

LifeMenPeopleLawAmericanYou

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

Louis Leakey

LifeFatherTimeWayYearsBritish

Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.

Jason Calacanis

WorkBusinessPeopleSayGoogle

I think you have to have the talent, and guys have to believe in what you're doing. Everybody has to play to the end.

Chris Harris, Jr.

TalentBelieveThinkEndDoingYou

Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.

Connie Stevens

SmileYouImportantNothingMore

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