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Graydon Carter Quotes

It's a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel.

Graydon Carter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 14, 1949

Topics

Daily Moment Assumptions Values Race

My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly.

Jessie J

Attitude Childhood Stand You Acting

I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.

Jerry Lewis

Life I Am Curious Me Think My Life

I've always gone into the studio with a very clear understanding of a song, of the words or, if it's an instrumental piece, of the melodies, and that never changes.

Jenny Scheinman

Words Song Understanding Never Gone

Shinya Yamanaka's work has involved mice and human cells, and advances the prospect of providing new cells or body parts for patients.

John Gurdon

Work Body New Human Cells Mice

When I was 14, I thought I was the coolest kid in school because I told everyone the jokes in FHM.

Megan Fox

School Thought Kid Everyone Jokes

I went to L.A. to become an actress, and I started from the ground up. I worked as an extra, and then I started taking this joke-writing class because it was free. I didn't want to be a comedian, but I was like, 'Free education? Yeah, I'll take a class.'

Anjelah Johnson

Education Free Want Class Become Up

Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.

Amanda Crew

Life Work Happy Me Wait Short

'The Full Monty' was my first feature script, and I wasn't that skilled at it.

Simon Beaufoy

First Full Skilled Feature Script

As a rule, the civil-rights establishment is not punctual.

Tucker Carlson

Rule Punctual Establishment

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Robert W. Service

Mountain Brainy Sand You Ahead Shoe

Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.

Mikhail Gorbachev

War People Me Serious Sometimes Why

It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.

Mireille Enos

Nature Truth Focus Human Nature Easy