Hilton Als Quotes

Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work.

Hilton Als

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WorkSomeoneNothingMoreYourThan

I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I've done it a million times before.

Jennifer Wyatt

RelaxDoneKnowingHappenMillion

Compared with other recent presidents whose stumbles and failures have assaulted the national self-esteem, memories of Kennedy continue to give the country faith that its better days are ahead. That's been reason enough to discount his limitations and remain enamored of his presidential performance.

Robert Dallek

FaithMemoriesPerformanceBetter

One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world.

Jay Rockefeller

WorldYearCountryDangerousUnited

Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

PerseveranceJobStoryOldExample

Movies are weird; it's like trying to make a painting with one hundred people. It's a weird world, but every job is weird; it's always a little bit hard, crazy and fun, a nice combination.

Dito Montiel

JobFunPeoplePaintingCrazyWorld

The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.

Christopher Alexander

LifeQualityFireBuildingName

Even before I was working off-Broadway, there were lots of different TV shows that I would actually say 'no' to, and my agents would be like, 'Are you crazy?' but they stuck with me because they know the kind of things that excite me.

Corey Hawkins

MeCrazyYouKnowSayKind

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

Chuck Palahniuk

CultureWithoutGhostSeemsObserve

Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.

Anurag Kashyap

WorkGoodGreatPeopleWritingNeed

There are things you're supposed to learn in life. My biggest regret was terminating a pregnancy when I was about 18. Every day, I think about who that baby would be now; it still makes me sad.

Suzi Quatro

LifeSadDayMeBabyRegret

The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.

Phil Bredesen

GreatBestNightGeniusAmerica

I'm the third or fourth generation of actor in my family; I'm sure if they were butchers, I'd be a butcher, too.

Sean Pertwee

FamilyGenerationActorButcherSure

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