Dinah Manoff Quotes

I kept turning down roles because I knew I just wasn't ready for them.

Dinah Manoff

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• There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Past
  • Temptation
  • Ornament

• I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Working

• I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Vision
  • Talk
  • Forward

• While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Job
  • Experience
  • High

• They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Character
  • Man
  • Thought

• My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Win
  • Give
  • Target

• In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Earth
  • Early
  • Transition

• I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'

  

  FKA twigs
  • Want
  • Years
  • Period

• I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Player
  • Never
  • Shoe

• Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Children
  • Learn
  • Compromise

• There's always been a hunger in me not necessarily to be successful, but to be an icon.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Me
  • Successful
  • Hunger

• I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Fun
  • You
  • Know

• Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • School
  • Power
  • Imagination

• I'm not a negative person.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Person
  • Negative

• Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I ain't gonna live the next one.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Live
  • Me
  • Day

• I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Night
  • Always

• I do tend to overdo everything.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Everything
  • Tend
  • Overdo

• You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• We played a festival in Ireland once, and in the middle of 'New Slang,' the Scissor Sisters kicked in across the field on this mega stage. It was a little distracting. It was hard to keep track of what I was supposed to sing.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells

• I shall strive to inculculate in my men the spirit of the chase.

  

  J. E. B. Stuart
  • Men
  • War
  • Spirit

• I find it hard to believe that Senators or the American public will classify Sotomayor as unqualified, particularly given the thin credentials of many of our eighteenth and nineteenth century Supreme Court Justices.

  

  David Stras
  • Believe
  • American

• Due to broken windows policing, the following interactions can lead to tickets, arrests and summonses, warrants if tickets go unpaid and, in some cases, violence: jaywalking, sleeping on a park bench, spitting, putting your feet up on the subway, and more.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Broken

• Our success depends very largely upon how well we negotiate our way through our daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Success
  • Daily

• I kept turning down roles because I knew I just wasn't ready for them.

  

  Dinah Manoff