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David Brinkley Quotes

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 10, 1920 - June 11, 2003

Topics

Success Man Foundation Others Him

Even in film, books, and music, there's always action - there's always rock and roll. Young people appreciate that kind of experience.

Music Experience People Action Young

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

Identity Year Right Out Been Movie

People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to the bagginess of novel writing, it almost feels like a martial art.

Love Art Discipline People Writing

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

Business Great People Team Person

They probably realized our interview would do more damage to their pro-'gay' piece - rather than help it.

Stephen Bennett

Help More Interview Damage Would

In the old days, when a star left a still-thriving hit show, they'd celebrate by killing him or her off. But 'The Office' dispatched Michael Scott in a crueler and more final way: they made him normal. Since we're talking about Michael Scott, 'normal' might be stretching it, obviously.

Celebrate Talking Way More Office

There are some fabulous treasures of photos of me during the early days of my career; there are these pin-up photos that make me laugh: I look like the poor man's Maria Montez. But there are some I look at, and I didn't realize how sexy I looked back then.

Man Me Sexy Laugh Look Early

I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the Kennedy family, and actors would traditionally play JFK like they Hamlet or King Lear. They just would. I mean, people have played JFK, and they'll play him long after I have.

Family Today King People Look Play

It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive.

Fear History Time People Free Lived

I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.

Find Want Question Outside Defines

The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places.

Weird Hotel Look Alien Strange Seem

Simply to have peace brings huge investment.

Juan Manuel Santos

Peace Investment Simply Brings Huge

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