Dean Bakopoulos Quotes

Once I have a book in my head, I write progressive drafts fast and obsessively and have trouble sleeping.

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• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • World
  • Job
  • Reading

• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• I feel like we all have our skeletons.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Like
  • Feel
  • I Feel Like

• You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Mother
  • You
  • Know

• The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • American
  • Strong

• Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Stop
  • Best
  • Always

• Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Best

• I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Wife
  • Morning

• When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Great
  • City

• William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• My awkward stage extended well into high school.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Popular
  • President
  • While

• I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Walking
  • Creative
  • Process

• We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • World
  • Money
  • Success

• If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • World
  • Control
  • Decision

• This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Country
  • Business
  • History

• It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I spent seven years in clubs in England, Australia, etc. Not all comedians cross over to sell out in a theatre.

  

  Deirdre O'Kane
  • Theatre

• The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.

  

  JJ Feild
  • Life
  • My Life
  • New York

• Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Great
  • Live
  • May

• Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Once I have a book in my head, I write progressive drafts fast and obsessively and have trouble sleeping.

  

  Dean Bakopoulos
  • Book