Barbara Sher Quotes

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

Barbara Sher

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MusicUsedMakeLike

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

Jo Nesbo

IdeasConstructionStartWritePlot

When new cooks come to work for me, they obviously make mistakes at the beginning or there's some messiness to the presentation. What I always say to them is: 'If you were cooking this for your mother or your girlfriend, would you make those mistakes?'

Joel Robuchon

WorkMotherCookingMistakesMeYou

It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created.

Anders Hejlsberg

GreatDayYouKnowLivingSoftware

Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.

Meghan Markle

CouragePerspectiveStepWorldRest

In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.

John J. Sirica

PowerQuestionsPrivilegeMatters

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

John Kenneth Galbraith

BeginningPeopleTellCenturyWanted

As an actor, you always dream of having material that showcases what you can do.

Michael B. Jordan

YouDreamActorAlwaysMaterial

To walk into a studio, for me, is just like walking onto a beach or something.

Steven Van Zandt

BeachWalkMeWalkingSomething

Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.

Tom Cotton

AmbitionHumanKindsHuman Beings

I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.

Rufus Wainwright

BusinessI AmWritingSurviveYou

I'm a lot of work.

Lisa Marie Presley

WorkLot

You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.

Annie Lennox

PeopleProcessYouFindPlaceKnow

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