Lyle Lovett Quotes

Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication.

Lyle Lovett

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GoodCommunicationRespectJobBoss

I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me.

Andie MacDowell

TimeI AmMeReadingAlwaysFiction

You want to go to your deathbed saying, 'I didn't sell out.' But it's a tough business to keep to what you believe in and get through and do well.

Maxine Peake

BusinessSayingToughBelieveYou

Not being given everything encourages you to create... That was one of the first steps for me learning to invent things.

Ann Makosinski

LearningMeYouCreateFirstSteps

We need to feminise history because we are 50 per cent of the population, and our story is just as interesting.

Amanda Foreman

HistoryStoryInterestingNeedJust

I am single. Acting can make it hard to have profound relationships if you're not careful. You get into this pattern of three-month, four-month jobs and 'what's the next adventure.'

Tom Hollander

AdventureI AmYouActingProfound

You know, honestly, acting in film is remarkably independent. You're doing your thing and someone else is doing their thing.

Josh Hartnett

SomeoneDoingYouActingKnowFilm

I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.

Jonathan Safran Foer

HomeEyesCoffeeInterestingFriends

I think most people want to be remembered with the causes they feel worthwhile and helped promote.

Jorge M. Perez

PeopleThinkFeelWantRemembered

A hedonistic lifestyle contrary to all the rules and expectations of Islam is not an unusual precursor to radicalisation: in fact, some young radicals see joining in the jihad as a way of achieving redemption for past sins.

Deeyah Khan

PastExpectationsRulesAchieving

Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.

Chloe Sevigny

LifeTogetherBackGoTouchReal

I have no formal culinary training, right.

Thomas Keller

TrainingRightCulinaryFormal

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

Norman Ralph Augustine

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