Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Quotes
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
Edith Pearlman -
I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
Parker Posey -
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
Aaron Neville -
I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
Idris Elba -
The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
Katee Sackhoff -
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
Faith Ford -
I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
Barbara Eden -
Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
Orison Swett Marden -
The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
Earl Weaver -
In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
Kate Christensen -
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
Dan Lipinski
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
Sam Hunt -
Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
Garry Trudeau -
I like to laugh and make people have fun.
R. Kelly -
I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
Malik Jackson -
You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.
Vic Morrow -
All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
Marat Safin
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I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.
Albert Brooks -
I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.
Andy Rooney -
I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
Warwick Davis -
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
Albert Ellis -
A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.
Ian Mcewan -
Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt