Ira Glasser Quotes
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
Nancy Kress -
Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
Tatjana Patitz -
If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
Oskar Schindler -
If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
Ian Anderson -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
Umberto Eco -
You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
Cam Gigandet -
I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
Kajal Aggarwal -
My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
Federico Fellini -
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm Forbes -
I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
Barbara Corcoran
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
Barney Frank -
I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
Kajal Aggarwal -
I definitely enjoy the kind of magic that happens being on stage with a group when everything's working. The vibe when that's happening gets even better if the audience is involved and you can feel that interaction. That's something you don't get with your headphones on in a studio; it's much different.
Washed Out -
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
Dani Shapiro -
You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. That means new technologies.
Ramez Naam
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
Tammy Duckworth -
But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.
Patrick McGoohan -
When you've been through that, a fight just doesn't seem that cataclysmic.
Brian Stann -
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
Orison Swett Marden -
One should never refuse an invitation to lunch or dinner, for one never knows what one may have to eat the next day.
Edouard de Pomiane -
Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.
Ira Glasser