Saul Leiter Quotes

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music, and to paint when I feel like it.

Saul Leiter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 3, 1923 - November 26, 2013

Topics

MusicCoffeeFeelCareerBuild

It would drive me crazy if I picked roles with the goal of being a leading man. You never know what you're getting into when you sign onto a project, and more times than not, the characters that are close to the leading man are more interesting and more fun to play.

Jesse Plemons

ManFunMeCrazyDriveInteresting

Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.

Robert M. Gates

HealthEatingCareAliveDefense

I think outing people is fear-based: the fear that if we don't out them, it will make things harder for all of us. It's important to treat people with love.

Robert Gant

LoveFearPeopleTreatThinkWill

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

John T. Flynn

WarWinWin Or LoseLoseDefeat

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

John Podhoretz

MediaSayNeedThroughNoiseBreak

There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.

Trey Parker

PeopleDoingNothingTouchJustTV

A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

Moby

FriendsBrooklynLostStrangeScary

Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of the military are brought up with that sense of order and sameness.

Lois Lowry

LifeChildrenGreatQualityWorld

I had a good time shooting in New Zealand. I almost bought a home there while I was there, because I loved it so much.

Josh Hartnett

GoodHomeTimeLovedNewShooting

I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.

Jon Lovitz

MoneyComedyFirstOverAnything

My particular demigod is the Sonics point guard Gary Payton, who is one of the most notorious trash-talkers in the National Basketball Association. He's not really bad. He's only pretend bad - I know that - but he allows me to fantasize about being bad.

David Shields

MeBasketballBadKnowPretendOnly

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

Chris Patten

PoliticsThinkImportantEndeavor

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