Lynne Cheney Quotes

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

Lynne Cheney

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I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Robert Redford

FaceThoughtProblemYoungNever

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

Max de Pree

LeadershipChangeLearningGrace

I really do believe when you're in a ton of pain, you tend to take it out on other people. If you deal with your stuff, you don't take it out on everybody else.

Alysia Reiner

PainPeopleBelieveYouOutTake

Every time you step out on that field, it's tough. There is no easy way to approach it and no short cuts out there.

Sonny Bill Williams

TimeStepToughShortEasyYou

When I was about 17 or 18, I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't going to change. I didn't know what the consequences would be, but I had the definite feeling that it was going to wreck my Disney career.

Tommy Kirk

ChangeMyselfConsequencesCareer

When 'The Dark Side of the Moon' was a new album in 1973, a friend of mine walked into my room where I was working with a copy in his hand and said, 'You really have to do a play about this album.'

Tom Stoppard

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All of the vintage photos of Ballets Russes are so inspiring.

Mary Helen Bowers

VintageInspiringPhotosBallets

There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project.

Mary Steenburgen

MeInsideProjectConnectSomething

When I was first diagnosed, I went out, as a book person, and got some books on cancer and looked up my version of the disease. It said that I had about a 5 percent chance of survival. I said, 'Gosh, well, it's been a good run.' What I didn't realize is that in the two years since those books were published, things had shifted dramatically.

Molly Ivins

GoodBookChanceSurvivalPerson

So much of performing is a mind game. You're memorizing thousands of notes, and if you start thinking about it in the wrong way, everything can blow up in your face.

Joshua Bell

MindStartGameFaceThinkingYou

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

Alfred North Whitehead

TreatDevilTryingWholeThemPlays

One thing I learned is how much easier it is to write about clothes than it is to make them.

Suzy Menkes

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