David Sedaris Quotes
Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.David Sedaris
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
Dakota Blue Richards -
I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
Valerie Plame -
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Frances Burney -
I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
Jack Keane -
Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
D. A. Pennebaker
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
Kate Thompson -
I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
I love people, and the hustle.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
Victoria Pendleton -
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
Zane Grey -
Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
Hanya Yanagihara
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
Ted Shackelford -
I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
Vince Cable -
I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.
Garth Stein -
Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
Jack Davenport -
I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
Taylor Swift
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
J. D. Vance -
It had occurred to Rimford, at about the time he approached fifty, that the chief drawback in contemplating the enormous gulfs of time and space that constitute the bricks and mortar of the cosmologist is that one acquires a dismaying perception of the handful of years allotted a human being.
Jack McDevitt -
It was a double jolt for me. The jolt of seeing my father slowly die, the jolt of knowing that I was diabetic and could meet the same fate if I didn't take care of myself.
Dan Hill -
I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.
Raf Simons -
Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.
David Sedaris