There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
Pat Oliphant
Recitation: by Male by Female
All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.
Jill Scott
CharacterGreatWritingYouWant
However much some journalists may criticize me, I know that I look, feel, and behave several decades younger than my actual age, and much of that is because I believe you are what you think you are. This is called positive affirmation, and it's a really strong tool.
Joan Collins
PositiveAgeMeBelieveThinkLook
William Faulkner, Muriel Spark, Richard Yates, William Styron, James Salter, Alice Munro. They're very different writers, and I admire them for different reasons. The common thread, I guess, is that they remind me what's possible, why I wanted to write fiction in the first place.
Jennifer Haigh
MeSparkPlaceWhyAdmirePossible
Looks aren't a big thing to me. I keep reading these articles in fan magazines about me, and I don't even know who they're talking about. It's boring.
Matt Dillon
MeReadingTalkingLooksKnowBig
Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that companies that don't reinvent themselves will be left behind. I also think that's true of people. And I think it's true of countries.
John T. Chambers
PeopleThinkTrueWillFortuneLeft
I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up.
Amanda Bynes
MeGrowing UpGrowingWatchingUp
I try my hardest not to read reviews.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
TryReviewsHardestRead
I'm the son of two Holocaust survivors. As a child, I heard from one of my parents' best friends about living through Mengele's infamous selection process at Auschwitz. He haunted my nightmares.
Ronen Bergman
SonBestChildParentsFriendsTwo
It's real primal; I just like playing music.
Ronnie Dunn
MusicRealPlayingJustLikePrimal
What is of the nature of spirit and soul must be gleaned from facts belonging to the spirit and soul; we shall then know that in the living thinking which is liberated from the will, a life-germ has been discerned which passes through the gate of death, goes through the spiritual world after death, and afterwards returns again to earthly life.
Rudolf Steiner
LifeNatureSoulDeathSpiritual
The rule is, you can protest all you want. Make all the noise you want. Carry all the signs you want. The minute you throw a rock, you get arrested. The minute you break a window, you get arrested. The minute you break into a store, you get arrested.
Rudy Giuliani
WindowYouWantRockSignsNoise
When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend with one of her clients and his little sister while the parents went away on vacation. She brought me along.
Mona Simpson
MotherVacationSchoolParentsMe
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