Billy Eckstine Quotes

When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

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• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need

• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Experience
  • Actor
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• Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Control
  • Company
  • Stock

• There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Parents
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• If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.

  

  Nate Diaz
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• The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Writing
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  • Page

• I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Done
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• Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Family
  • Bad

• I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Bad
  • Want
  • End

• Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Character
  • Doing
  • Looking

• I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
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• I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.

  

  Barry Sheene
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• Deus seu Natura

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• If you you're in the United States, sometimes you can feel lazy and think we're so big we don't have to really know anything about other people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
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• She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
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• ... I just know that, right now, … the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

  

  Elvis Presley
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• I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.

  

  Barbara Mertz
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• Whatever the trend in exchange rates or whatever the external factors, a manufacturing company is always faced with the mission of transforming itself into a company that can produce higher value-added to absorb the increase in the cost of living in the country it's operating in.

  

  Fujio Mitarai
  • Country
  • Value

• I hope I'm always lucky enough to be able to work in theater, TV, and big films and small films. I think there's advantages and disadvantages to all of them. The fact that this was a small film without much money and without much time made it rich in energy and momentum and drive when we were actually making it 'cause that's all you've got. You've just got the story and the people.

  

  Harry Treadaway
  • Work
  • Films
  • Theater

• I coulda got mad. But then I had to stop and think, well, what did he get in school? What did he get in his work experience? What did he get even from his own union, that gave him some tools to understand what he was seeing on that television?

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • School
  • Experience

• You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Character
  • Simple
  • Understanding

• When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.

  

  Billy Eckstine