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Larry McMurtry Quotes

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: June 3, 1936

Topics

People Story Easy Nation Rural Get

I started out in this business in rock and roll bands and stumbled into drag. Drag just happened to be my vehicle for my creativity. So, you know, it's afforded me the opportunity to create new shows, to make music.

Business Music Opportunity Creativity

It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

Mary-Louise Parker

Good Stupid Comfort Zone Feel Out

I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself.

Monica Lewinsky

Myself Mom President More Than Then

At some point, I'd like to make a record that's more of a self-serving guitar album, because I really love to play. It's not really something I'd expect a whole lot of people to buy, though.

Love People Guitar Play More Buy

Under the rule of law, if the government wants to prevent firms from outsourcing and offshoring, it enacts legislation and adopts regulations to create the appropriate incentives and discourage undesirable behaviour. It does not bully or threaten particular firms or portray traumatised refugees as a security threat.

Joseph Stiglitz

Government Law Security Create Rule

I like the old days when, if I wrote a song and I recorded it, it didn't mean somebody else couldn't record it.

Chris Stapleton

Song Mean Old Days Old Days Like

I grew up as normally as any other kid. Between that small TV part I did at five and when I turned professional actor at 18, I stayed away from the limelight, so I was just like any typical kid who went to school.

School Small Professional Actor Kid

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.

Father God Decision Speak Literature

We have a duty to fight ISIS; air operations alone will not defeat ISIS.

Alone Fight Defeat Duty Will Air

Losing the presidency is not like losing any other office. More than any other office, it's a vote about you as a whole human being.

Richard Ben Cramer

Losing You Vote More Human Office

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I'm an old-fashioned mama's boy.

I Am People Tough Deep Know Boy

My boyfriend and I don't get to live in the same city all the time, and the fact that I can text him or call him or even Skype with him is so wonderful.

Live Time City I Can Him Same

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