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Dan Aykroyd Quotes

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: canadian
Birth: July 1, 1952

Topics

Business Me Entertainment End-All

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

Myself Emotional Would Material Ever

My question about everything I do is, does it make our country stronger?

Stronger Country Question Everything

To say 'A High Wind in Jamaica' is a novel about children who are abducted by pirates is to make it seem like a children's book. But that's completely wrong; its theme is actually how heartless children are.

Andrew Sean Greer

Children Wind Book Wrong Say High

The truth is, I like to engage with life fully. Given an opportunity to do something I don't often get a chance to do, I feel the need to try it, even if I suspect I'll make a fool out of myself.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Life Opportunity Truth Myself Fool

America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created by Catholic Christianity.

Stanley Hauerwas

Great America First Always Europe

Infrastructure done right can help working people; infrastructure done wrong is just more money for private equity.

Money People Help Wrong Done Right

It isn't as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand.

Michelle Huneven

Life People Facts Reality Literature

My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.

Music Me Singing Song Know Kid

If I had made it in cheerleading, I would have never been an actress.

Christine Taylor

Never Been Actress Would Made Had

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

New York Wish You New Chicago Get

When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the air.

Wind Leaf Train Wood Air Through

I can have people around a lot more because I'm not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel, I mean.

Work People I Can More Mean Always

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