Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
Recitation: by Male by Female
I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run.
Jez Butterworth
RunLittleGoingShowUnderstood
I have got pictures all around the rooms I sit in. I have got a very mad picture of a dog standing on a black thing on a piece of rope. It was drawn and painted by a Romanian poet who was under house arrest, and it is terrific.
Jennifer Johnston
DogBlackPictureHousePictures
This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.
Maxine Waters
TeaGameToughHellYouParty
Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.
Maya Angelou
HeartPeopleMeFaceBlackDown
I don't think anybody really wants to know their limits.
Anna Faris
LimitsThinkKnowWantsAnybody
Saddam was a bad guy. Assad's a bad guy. Nobody's denying that.
Jeff Duncan
BadNobodyBad GuyGuySaddam
As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.
Meredith Monk
GoodChallengesThinkArtistsLike
I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?
Trent Reznor
MyselfSongThinkSayReasonAfraid
In Gerald Ford, the man he was in public, he was also that man in private.
Tom Brokaw
ManHeFordPublicPrivateAlso
I'm the first to admit that we were totally dependent on a particular place and time... for us, seeing Minor Threat at the CBGB hardcore matinee was just as necessary a force in our lives as the Treacherous Three at Club Negril or the Funky Four + One More at the Rock Lounge.
Mike D
TimeSeeingAdmitPlaceThreeRock
I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.
Deborah Harkness
LoveHopeReadingGenerationKind
I love history, and Churchill is one of my favorite people to study. He's a fascinating, fascinating man.
Douglas Booth
LoveHistoryManPeopleStudyHe
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