Abraham Verghese Quotes

I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.

Abraham Verghese

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LifeDreamsAgeYour DreamsPeople

Daniel Bryan had the 'Yes' Movement. That was phenomenal.

Jinder Mahal

MovementYesPhenomenalHadBryan

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.

John Barth

GodWorldYouBadWantRealist

I'm pretty restless in bed, so I can lie there for a couple of hours and be like, 'Hey, that happened today. What if that happened at a zoo?' I'll jot the idea down. Then I'm like, 'All right, so now that it's a zoo, that penguin's loose,' or, whatever. I usually start with broad ideas.

Anders Holm

TodayLieIdeasStartDownI Can

I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.

John Larroquette

QualityHappyPeopleDoingActing

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.

Anish Kapoor

BackNothingFirstTwoYearsWithin

I believe that refusing to quit and refusing to fail will trump talent and brilliance in the end.

Molly Bloom

TalentBelieveEndQuitWillFail

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.

Monica Bellucci

AmericanWaySameOverHappenOut

We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.

Jay McShann

PlayAlwaysLittleBigUsedLike

I like seeing comedians do stuff that I could never do.

Josh Thomas

SeeingNeverComediansLikeStuff

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

Jose Padilha

PeopleOnlyScientificMeasurements

I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it.

Derek Jacobi

TimeThoughtBetterGetting Better

I don't see why I should be a dame for just doing what I always wanted to do.

Cilla Black

DoingWhyAlwaysSeeJustShould

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