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Drew Gilpin Faust Quotes

The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: September 18, 1947

Topics

Education Imagination Opportunities

Most blues guitar players don't concentrate on singing and melodies. And forget about the bridge - the bridge doesn't exist. They go straight for the solo.

Bridge Singing Guitar Blues Forget

My bookshelves have no order. I prune them regularly and sell the books to Myopic Books, a Chicago bookstore. They give me store credit, and then I spend all the store credit, and, presumably, return to sell them back more of the books I bought from them.

Me Credit Back Chicago More Return

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.

John Frankenheimer

Business Myself Think Want Movies

If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

You Want Just Somebody Songs Ten

'Big Bang' is very tightly scripted. Because we shoot in front of a live audience, it's basically like doing a filmed piece of theatre, really.

Live Theatre Doing Audience Big

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.

Funny Humor People Comedy Alive Us

The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.

Work Power I Am Problem Very Both

When I write promotionally, I guess I give away the ones I'm less connected to.

Connected Write Away Give Guess

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

Work People Political Doing Follow

When I was 12, I used to ride my scooter two miles to a comics shop, which I can't imagine letting my kids do by themselves through the city.

Ride City Two Through Miles Used

Democrats have always historically referred to our families as working families, and I have sort of changed that moniker. I think what we have is a nation of worried families - families that are concerned about job security, families who thought their pensions were secure and now have questions.

Job Think Thought Questions Security

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

Robert B. Parker

Ignore You Want Will Whatever Going

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