Charles J. Shields Quotes

'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than eighty weeks. In 1961, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A film adaptation was released in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and received three Academy Awards.

Charles J. Shields

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• I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Good
  • Work
  • Music

• Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Acting
  • Profession
  • Singular

• A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect ways because I didn't appreciate what I had.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Feel
  • Appreciate
  • Ways

• I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Help
  • Ideas
  • Doing

• As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Law
  • President
  • Call

• It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • New
  • New York
  • Stock

• It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.

  

  Sal Mineo
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Myself

• One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Home
  • House
  • Small

• In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and with two little daughters, I led a life which would have been recognizable to any woman who had led it and to many others who had not.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • House
  • Myself

• A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • You
  • Plant
  • Walls

• It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.

  

  Kate Mara
  • People
  • Love
  • Exciting

• I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Think
  • Year
  • Sunday

• I love my job and my relationship with the viewers who watch my shows.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Job
  • Relationship
  • Shows

• The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • People
  • Fear
  • Small

• You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Up
  • Best

• I've not gotten so much stuff because I improvise in an audition, but I always feel like, if that's the case, the reason is because it wouldn't have worked out anyway with us working together.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Together
  • Working Together

• Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Temptation

• Above all, when your voices are heard in government, it's far more likely that your basic needs will be met. And that’s why reform must reach the daily lives of those who are hungry and those who are ill, and those who live without electricity or water.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Live
  • Why
  • Water

• I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Help
  • Problem
  • Writer

• I can only express satisfaction that the Dear Leader is joining the likes of Gaddafi, bin Laden, Hitler, and Stalin in a warm corner of hell.

  

  John McCain

• I feel like when I really did my research, I both came to hate Nancy Reagan more.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Hate
  • Feels
  • Research

• Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Civil
  • Widow
  • Aphorism

• 'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than eighty weeks. In 1961, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A film adaptation was released in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and received three Academy Awards.

  

  Charles J. Shields