When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.
David Duchovny
Recitation: by Male by Female
I sat down with a yellow legal pad and began writing 'A Time to Kill.' Had no idea what I was doing. It became, over a period of several years, a secret little hobby nobody knew about except my wife, because she was reading chapter by chapter.
John Grisham
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Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
John Chrysostom
HellPavedHell IsPriests
Prior to Elephant I'd taken about six years of acting classes in Portland, but there's not a huge market there. The only thing we have is commercial stuff, and that didn't really appeal to me. So this is really a dream come true.
John Robinson
MeElephantDreamActingTrueYears
Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.
John Polkinghorne
LifeUniverseEarthEvolutionHere
The two largest oil-producing countries in Latin America, Mexico and Venezuela, sold petroleum to Nicaragua at concessional rates for several years beginning in 1980. The program was curtailed because Nicaragua could not make even reduced payments.
Stephen Kinzer
BeginningAmericaTwoYearsMexico
I really like baking, and I really like playing video games. I saw a few geeky baking blogs but I never saw a show on television or on the Internet like that. So I thought, 'Why not be the first to try it out?' And it went really well.
Rosanna Pansino
Video GamesThoughtInternetBaking
Hollywood versions of watershed moments in American history are generally high-minded shlock. 'JFK,' 'The People vs. Larry Flynt,' even 'Lincoln': all of these boast excellent performances in scripts that are ultimately very conventional, even conservative.
Michelle Dean
HistoryPeopleAmericanMomentsEven
As a child, all I knew was that people kept asking me to sing, and because I liked to please, I would sing. It wasn't until my dad told me that my singing made him happy that I began to think my voice might be good.
Johnny Mathis
GoodHappyChildPeopleMeSinging
Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.
Dick Cavett
ComedyDoingYearsClubPainfulSet
Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along.
Drake
MeCoolFriendsNeverHimAnything
It's easy to deprecate some of the puffery and jingoism that often go with affirmations of 'American greatness.' It's also easy to confuse greatness with perfection, as if evidence of our shortcomings is proof of our mediocrity.
Bret Stephens
PerfectionGreatnessAmericanEasy
Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.
Alice Weaver Flaherty
SameShouldPsychiatryTreating
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