Gregory Isaacs Quotes

Since I was growing up, I liked love songs - Smokey Robinson, Sam Cooke. That was the kind of songs getting the girls dancing.

Gregory Isaacs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: jamaican
  • Birth: July 15, 1951 - October 25, 2010

Topics

LoveGrowing UpGrowingKindDancing

Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.

Jerry Saltz

ArtMindLookingNameQuestionsYou

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

Jennifer Aniston

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Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.

Shonda Rhimes

WomenPeopleIdeasSeemSawKnew

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Ronald Reagan

GodDemocracyLongWillEndure

If a day goes by that I'm not on television, I don't look at it as a lesser day, nor do I look at changing from a news world to a sports world as any sort of step other than a step in a new direction.

Josh Elliott

SportsDayStepWorldDirectionNew

Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not entirely bizarre, either, as I have done some work in film before, and even directed a ridiculous, cable-access feature back in my 20s.

Jonathan Raymond

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I turned down 'Forrest Gump.'

Chevy Chase

DownTurned

Thom Browne, Michael Bastian... all these people that I love, when I finally get to meet them, I'm like, 'You're a cool guy!'

Brad Goreski

LovePeopleCoolYouMeetGuy

Anyone can sit down and write two pages of a novel, then forget about it, and a week later write five pages of a screenplay, then forget about it, and a week later start another novel... etc, etc.

Antony Johnston

StartWeekDownForgetWriteTwo

I have a great belief in not doing anything unless I'm passionate about it.

Anthony Horowitz

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We should be forced to give so many exemptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high spending authorities in Inner London) that the flat-rate poll tax would rapidly become a surrogate income tax.

Nigel Lawson

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We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's minds. Perhaps we dismiss as irrelevant matters of crucial concern to those we love. That's life as most of us experience it, and which few movies document with such understated acuity as 'Boyhood' does.

Richard Corliss

LifeLoveExperiencePeopleMovies

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