Tom Bodett Quotes

What you hear is southern Michigan, not a drawl, but a halting kind of speech where you leave spaces when there shouldn't be any. We take a breath anywhere.

Tom Bodett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 23, 1955

Topics

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If you are going to work for the first time, keep your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open. Listen, watch - and don't forget what you see.

Jimmy Savile

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If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.

Jessie J

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There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.

John Lasseter

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When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books.

John Logan

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Just, whenever you can, get up and sing at a gig or jam. If you have a chance, take it and keep on getting up. Keep going - but not If people boo, 'cause that's just mean. I think that could be setting yourself for disappointment.

Sia

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I feel like when I do some dance moves during the week or at the house, I'm quicker on my feet. I can react quicker just from dancing.

Rob Gronkowski

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We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine.

Lucinda Williams

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I have always written - since I was a kid. I might say that I am essentially a writer who is bored to be alone in the room writing. I need to have more people around me. So, I 'write' with a film camera and have a party at the same time by having a bunch of people around.

Jasmila Zbanic

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One of the arguments I make for the failure of the euro is that, at the time it was being constructed, there was a 'neo-liberal' ideology which said that all we need to do to make this thing work is to get deficits low, keep inflation low, and take down barriers, and then everything would be fine.

Joseph Stiglitz

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Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.

Diplo

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It comes up over and over and over again that a ten times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries or the volume metric, the space-oriented density of batteries, would enable so many other moonshots that that's one that just constantly comes up over and over again, and we will start that moonshot if we can find a great idea.

Astro Teller

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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Sydney Smith

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