Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Elaine Chao Quotes

We Americans typically are more positive about our individual futures, which we have some control over, than we are the nation's or the world's, which we see largely through the media prism.

Elaine Chao

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 26, 1953

Topics

Positive Control World Media See

To become a villain, you had to have become disillusioned, and in order to become disillusioned you had to have been passionate about something you believed in that was shaken and ripped from your grasp as a protagonist in that stage of your life, leaving you disillusioned with God, if you will.

Matthew Davis

Life God Villain You Leaving Become

I'm a ham who wants to be a small part of anything.

Mickey Rooney

Small Anything Who Ham Wants Part

I don't care about the bare fact that anyone liked or didn't like a book or movie; they can only interest me in that bare fact by writing an intelligent review.

Michelle Dean

Me Writing Book Care Intelligent

That's one reason India is an attractive proposition for retiring. Servants are much more reasonable than in England. It's not exploitation so long as you pay a proper salary.

Miriam Margolyes

Long You India Salary More Reason

When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school!

Logan Lerman

Great School Thought Way Out Get

As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.

Julia Glass

People Create Real Fiction Days

All exercise releases endorphins and makes you feel good.

Jason Statham

Good Feel Good Feel Exercise You

I don't ever take a break. I'm always writing.

Dito Montiel

Writing Always Break Take Ever

When I first met the survivors of the Indianapolis in 1999 while writing a book about them, their story - the last major action of World War II - was rarely mentioned in high school textbooks. This is despite the fact that, before its torpedoing, the ship had delivered components of the atomic bomb Little Boy to Tinian Island.

Doug Stanton

School War Writing World Book Story

'Mandie and the Secret Tunnel' - the book and now the movie - pits a very young woman against forces she cannot control and events she cannot possibly know about. She's in way over her head, and you're pulling for her from the opening scene.

Dean Jones

Woman Control Book You Know Young

If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.

Chris Rock

Woman You Looks Damn She Twenty

The novel 'World War Z' is told from the perspectives of so many people - speaking to the narrator - that there's no way a movie could capture all of them. Still, the idea of turning a zombie pandemic into a war story is fascinating and could have translated easily to film.

Annalee Newitz

War People World Story Way Capture