Gillian Tans Quotes

Booking travel is not like shopping or groceries or booking a restaurant. It's much less frequent, so understanding what works just takes a lot more time.

Gillian Tans

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When I do my concerts, you have got to think about everything else; so you have got to think about your gown, your hair, your body, and how you present yourself on stage.

Jodi Benson

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I've polished up stories for their reprinted appearances. I guess there's always something to be changed or improved, but one could get carried away and work on one story indefinitely. I'm too restless for that, too eager to begin the next one.

Jeffrey Thomas

WorkStoryAlwaysNextBeginUp

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

John Ford

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I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.

Melanie Fiona

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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

Stendhal

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Balk the enemy's power; force him to reveal himself.

Sun Tzu

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The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.

Rita Ora

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People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.

Mitch Hedberg

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I don't have any fear of working with Samsung because I'm not gonna let them put a phone on my forehead; that's just never gonna happen.

Jay-Z

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Unfortunately, a human being is able to comprehend only that amount of evil which he is able to commit himself.

Joseph Brodsky

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For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

Bob Riley

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It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

Arthur Keith

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