V. S. Naipaul Quotes

I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.

V. S. Naipaul

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WorkLearnCraftAlwaysOutLeft

When you're doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page.

Jim Cantalupo

BusinessVisionDisciplineFocusYou

City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away and, in the great tradition of the Cheshire Cat, there's nothing left but Peter Martins' smile.

Robert Gottlieb

SmileGreatValueCityTradition

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

Maureen O'Hara

AgeLittleTwiceTurnedUntil

Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa.

Matt Mullenweg

SomeoneJust BecauseMeanViceJust

I continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican colleagues forgot that we were sent here to shrink the federal government, not to grow it.

Jeff Miller

GovernmentColleaguesThinkGrow

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

John Steinbeck

BestManHumanLikeHuman BeingsHe

I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me.

Tony Harrison

HateMePoetBeingCovers

It's always been my expectation to be the top guy, the face of the company, the one with all of that responsibility. But that should be everybody's goal. I didn't get into this to just be in the middle of the pack. If you want to do that, go work in a different line of work. This isn't the place to camouflage yourself.

Roman Reigns

WorkResponsibilityYourselfFaceGo

I do miss Saturday Night Live, that's for sure. There's nothing like it. I just hosted, and I felt I'd only been away for a week.

Mike Myers

LiveNightSaturdayWeekNothing

I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.

Lisa Kudrow

FunPeopleRealityDramaHighWatch

I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.

Diablo Cody

GoodMeRealityPlaceKnowRetarded

I would hope somebody out there will still want to hear a Backstreet Boys song when I'm 50-something.

Brian Littrell

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