David Ogden Stiers Quotes

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

David Ogden Stiers

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• I had no expectations of white people at all.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Expectations
  • White

• I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Like
  • Try
  • Just

• The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Life
  • Women
  • Free

• I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Beauty
  • Youth

• We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Fear
  • Know
  • More

• Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Good
  • Men
  • Spiritual

• I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Character

• People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • People
  • Food
  • Better

• All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Great
  • Together
  • Inspire

• I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Skinny

• My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Day
  • Name
  • April

• My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Different
  • Character
  • First

• My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • School
  • Teacher
  • Childhood

• You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Want
  • You
  • Gone

• He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Guy
  • Effort
  • Silly

• I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • My Life

• Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Know
  • Heartbeat
  • Clumsy

• As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Long
  • You
  • Education

• When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Trying
  • You
  • Years

• You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

  

  Bill Parcells
  • Trying

• We need people building companies all over the country to innovate in aviation, consumer products, education, health, cybersecurity, biotech, manufacturing, and everything in between.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • People
  • Country
  • Education

• Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Good
  • Talent
  • Ego

• Where may the wearied eye repose When gazing on the Great; Where neither guilty glory glows, Nor despicable state? Yes - one - the first - the last - the best - The Cincinnatus of the West,Whom envy dared not hate,Bequeath'd the name of Washington,To make man blush there was but one!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Great
  • May
  • Hate

• Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

  

  David Ogden Stiers
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing