Kevin Hassett Quotes

Too often, politics is like bad theater. The mass media simplifies stories and personalities into their most basic, digestible and familiar bits. Listeners prefer songs they have heard before, after all.

Kevin Hassett

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Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with.

Jeffery Deaver

YouWriteRuleSettingsFamiliar

I'm from a small farm town in Indiana!

Angela Ahrendts

SmallFarmIndianaTown

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

LifeWisdomWorldTrueUnderstand

There are many designers who have much greater talent as a designer than I do, but they may not have my drive, they may not work as hard, they may not have the focus, the desire... You have to have a talent because, at the end of the day, if the pants you design don't make someone's butt look great, they're not going to buy them.

Tom Ford

WorkGreatFocusDayTalentDrive

Falling is a hard thing to do whether you are a Christian or not, but when you are in Christ, it comes with a deep sadness for letting your Savior down.

Monica Johnson

SadnessDeepChristianYouDown

Over the years, I think, people - actors, writers, whatever - lose their frame of reference. Their frame of reference is based on somebody else who did this or did that. Performances. So it just becomes a reflection of what already works. Like a warm-up. And that's an invitation to be inauthentic.

Michael Keaton

ReflectionPeopleThinkLoseOver

I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.

Michael Moore

ControlMediaKnowEverythingOwn

I don't remember my dreams. I'm one of those weird people. I know there are tricks and things you can do, but I never remember my dreams.

Jayma Mays

DreamsPeopleWeirdRememberYou

When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.

Domhnall Gleeson

WorkGoodFamousYouActorHandle

I think there are people who are born storytellers. I think of someone like T. C. Boyle or Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I think really, without putting any pejorative on it, they're like carnival barkers, 'Come into the tent, and I'll tell you this story.'

David Shields

PeopleStoryThinkSomeoneYouBorn

I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.

Pilou Asbaek

PeopleMeSeriousDramaticGuyOnly

Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

Phylicia Rashad

DoingYouActingNoseTruthfulJobs

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