David McCullough Quotes
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
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I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.
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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
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Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.
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I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
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Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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Luckily for both the tech industry and Hollywood, there is only one thing that counts - use of the Internet is still growing exponentially, as consumers shift to digital everything from analog.
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When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.
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For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.
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We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought people who listen to Britney Spears would run to listen to it. It was intended for people on the fanatical side of production and hi-fi.
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No entrepreneur ever publicly admits to bribing, but few dare to openly claim they don't, either.
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I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
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We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.
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One of my favorite memories from growing up in Brazil is being in the kitchen with my family and watching everyone bake and cook.
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I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.
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With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.
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A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.
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Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text.
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Realtime ads are the perfect way for an advertiser to connect with users in a social environment.
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Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians. They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day. You wake up and the world says, 'Oops, it's too much fun to go to school, you've got to stay home and deal with the snow!'
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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
