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Barbara Demick Quotes

Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed.

Barbara Demick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american

Topics

Walking Portrait Down Street Will

I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick Jagger. I don't know. I love a challenge.

Mavis Staples

Love Challenge Country Know Way CD

I won Miss Teen World, and then a movie rep saw me on the pageant website and thought that I had the perfect image for the role in 'Madrasapattinam.'

Amy Jackson

Teen Me World Thought Perfect Image

I first started doing theatre, as my sister did it, so I wanted to do the same.

Sigrid

Sister Theatre Doing First Same Did

I'm a union guy; I've always been. I've been in SAG 35 years; my father was a garbage man, a sanitation man, for the city, a union guy.

Tony Danza

Father Man City Garbage Always Guy

Hopefully, reading and being around great literature inspires me to write songs, but I'm not sure about that.

Mat Kearney

Great Me Reading Literature Write

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Money Day Job Enough You Back

I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers. It makes me wonder why I brought up the recovery story in the first place.

Mary Docter

Me Saying Story Wonder Place Know

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

Louis Leakey

Difficult Funds Very Raising Fourth

I'm all for streaming, and I do think it's thrilling that a gazillion people can see our film the day it drops. On the other hand, I'm a fierce believer of the theatergoing experience. My hope would be that films can be enjoyed in both ways, that there's room for both.

Jonathan Demme

Hope Experience Day People Think

An insult is mean or unkind. Milton Berle called me the Sultan of Insult, and I was called the King of Insult. But the guy that gave me the best title - and I use it to this day - was Johnny Carson. He called me Mr. Warmth.

Don Rickles

Best Day King Me Insult Mean

Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship.

Boris Spassky

World Championship Annual Would

I eat well, and I exercise.

Seth Rogen

Exercise Eat Well