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Theodore C. Sorensen Quotes

With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.

Theodore C. Sorensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: lawyer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 8, 1928 - October 31, 2010

Topics

Peace World Help Party Nation Our

I grew up in the '70s, when people talked on the phone - and just talked more. I remember the phone was the epicenter of our house. I spent hours every evening as a teenager waiting for the phone to ring and talking to my friends.

Jennifer Egan

Waiting People Evening Talking House

When I knew I was pregnant four years ago with a boy, a friend suggested I call him Cary, but I initially resisted. There was only one Cary Grant. But a week before he was due, I started thinking it would be wonderful to pass the name on to him. And anyway, my father wasn't Cary to me. He was Dad.

Jennifer Grant

Friend Father Me Thinking Name Week

I'm absolutely compelled for NASA to send international astronauts to Mars to find out if Mars ever harbored life.

John M. Grunsfeld

Life Find NASA Mars Out Astronauts

When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

Matthew Lawrence

Life You Movies Try Real Real Life

I don't believe in happy endings.

Jeanette Winterson

Happy Believe Endings

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.

Michael Haneke

Imagination Step Me Face You Looks

When one person does something that works, everyone else wants to do it. So it didn't surprise me at all to see people come with different versions of 'American Idol' and a lot of them are exactly the same but with different twists.

Ruben Studdard

People Me Surprise American Person

Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink.

Roxane Gay

Cool Pink Black Say Shades Colour

I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.

Mary Karr

Think Look Close Favorite Like Pope

If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that.

Mary Steenburgen

You Ready Growing Dying

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

Monica Ali

Conflict Create Drama Try Always

As the director, it's just a constant stream of meetings where you meet with all of the creatives who make all of the decisions for every part of the episodes. You're also scouting for locations, deciding on the locations, meeting with your first associate director; mine was Jennifer Truelove. She's one of my favorite people on the planet.

Miriam Shor

People Decisions Meetings You Meet