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Gordon Bethune Quotes

It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: August 29, 1941

Topics

Pizza Fly You Nobody Will Eat

I think any journalist who spends time in a place realizes that there are lots of stories around beyond their primary story. You meet so many interesting people and have all kinds of experiences.

Time People Story Think Interesting

As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding.

Jessica Valenti

Marriage Father Women Myself Dress

I went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why.

Jennifer Carpenter

Day School Voice Speech You Why

A lot of writing's going down dead ends that don't go anywhere.

Writing Down Go Dead Going Anywhere

Barack Obama became president, and he abandoned Iraq. He left, and when he left Al Qaida was done for. ISIS was created because of the void that we left, and that void now exists as a caliphate the size of Indiana.

Done Now President Size Abandoned

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

Easy Fast Crime Write Everything

The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought.

Robin Marantz Henig

Life Feel Modern Make Modern Life

I long ago realized it was not a figure of speech when people come up to me and say they grew up watching me since they were 'that big.'

People Me Speech Long Say Watching

I hated L.A. for a long time, and I wanted to leave it. I had these fantasies of going to 'SNL' and falling in love with some writer on 'SNL,' of getting married and living in New York.

Love Time New York Falling In Love

I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Lauren Bacall or Bette Davis might have played. What I wouldn't like is to suddenly find myself being cast, as many senior actresses seem to be, as the abbess in a convent.

Love Myself Thinking Find Play Seem

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

Life Poetry Better My Life Worse

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Bryant H. McGill

Life Hope Great Death Desire Own

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