Blythe Danner Quotes
I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.Blythe Danner
Quotes to Explore
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
Vikram Seth -
I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
J. A. Jance -
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
Fanny Kemble -
Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
Victor Kiam -
We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
Olly Murs
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
Samuel Dash -
I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
Randy Harrison -
What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
Laura Moser -
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie -
We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
M. H. Abrams -
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
Danica Patrick -
We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
Rachel Weisz -
All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.
Felipe VI of Spain -
I was actually a Cowboys fan.
Victor Cruz
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A good life is a main argument.
Ben Jonson -
Postmodernism is what you have when the modernization process is complete and nature is gone for good. It is a more fully human world than the older one, but one in which 'culture' has become a veritable 'second nature.'
Fredric Jameson -
I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.
Jason Mraz -
Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.
Kate Clinton -
Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.
Elizabeth Berg -
I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.
Blythe Danner