Alan Brinkley Quotes
Compression is a tremendous challenge. Five paragraphs on a topic is a lot for all but the most important issues.Alan Brinkley
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The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
Faran Tahir -
Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
Xavier Becerra -
I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
I'm mostly vegetarian.
Zuleikha Robinson -
I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
Natalie Cole -
Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
Daisy Berkowitz
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
Adam Cohen -
What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
Tavi Gevinson -
Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
Ziyi Zhang -
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi -
People don't know how to behave in public anymore.
Gallagher -
I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force - like The Force in 'Star Wars' - where it doesn't matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
Damon Lindelof
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Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
Jack Wagner -
When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.
Anand Giridharadas -
I did some modeling here and there but nothing really big. There was a time when I simply bummed around, waiting for offers.
Coco Martin -
I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
Elliott Erwitt -
The art of the three-minute song is more like journalism than writing a big 400-page book. You want to be brief, you want to make sense right yen and there. And sometimes that takes a bit of work.
Buffy Sainte-Marie -
I'm pretty prepared for anything. You could shove me out there in any situation - I've done it.
Drew Pomeranz
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All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.
Bob Newhart -
In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.
Chris Terrio -
If the President says, oh, Washington's got to change, and people are doubting whether my change can really happen, I think instead what the public's begun to see is the change they're seeing is not the change they voted for.
Eric Cantor -
I've learned that it doesn't matter how your husband squeezes the toothpaste, the important thing is how he squeezes you.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Compression is a tremendous challenge. Five paragraphs on a topic is a lot for all but the most important issues.
Alan Brinkley