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 -
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 -
I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
Faith Ford
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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 -
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
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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 -
I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.
Lake Bell
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Creativity is the basis of all innovation, and although it is doubtful that it can be taught, creativity should be nurtured in those who have it.
Jerome Isaac Friedman -
And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.
Mel Tillis -
The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.
H. L. Mencken -
I was on stage with Cyndi Lauper, and my trousers split. It seemed like she was going to sing for ever.
Robert Dwayne Womack -
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
John Dryden -
Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt