C. J. Cherryh Quotes
Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.
Quotes to Explore
-
I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.
-
If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
-
I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
-
It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
-
I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
-
Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
-
I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
-
There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
-
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
-
I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.
-
What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
-
I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
-
I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
-
I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.
-
Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
-
Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
-
Straight people are everywhere!
-
I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
-
I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
-
I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.
-
We me and my husband both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do your thing, I'll do my thing and never the two shall meet." I think we had a healthy competition going through our childhood. But I sort of left the funny stuff to him, I said "You're the comedian, you're the jokester, you do that I'll be the more serious one." You need that kind of balance in the family.
-
I'm blessed. I'm blessed every day I wake up. So I just try to maximize every day to the fullest.
-
We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.
-
Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.
