David Lindsay-Abaire Quotes

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

David Lindsay-Abaire

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• I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Cooking

• I think I need security.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Think
  • Need
  • Security

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Play
  • Boring
  • Reaction

• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Attention
  • Band
  • Enough

• I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • German
  • National
  • Titles

• Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Very
  • Well
  • Handle

• I don't really see myself as an actor.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • See

• The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Women
  • Country
  • Struggle

• My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Mom
  • Passionate
  • Taught

• I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Want
  • Know

• I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Ride

• But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Work
  • Stage
  • Excitement

• When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Writing
  • Emotion
  • Curiosity

• I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Moment
  • Mountain
  • Mountains

• Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Different
  • Book
  • You

• I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn't been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on 'Everybody Hates Chris'. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other.

  

  Imani Hakim
  • Family
  • Success
  • Like

• Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Work
  • Success
  • Greatness

• I would walk into an audition, and they'd say, 'Here comes Clinton Derricks-Carroll's brother.' They could never remember my name.

  

  Cleavant Derricks
  • Remember
  • Brother

• I thought that after such a long time of not letting her be with me. I would like to bring her back into my life.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

  

  David Lindsay-Abaire
  • Life
  • Identity