Don Novello Quotes

I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine article. At that time I sent it to Esquire and Playboy, but anyway, I kept writing, and all of sudden I had enough and thought, well maybe it is a book.

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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
  • Perfect

• I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Real
  • Think

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • You
  • Financial
  • Ability

• Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Think
  • Myself

• No person is just one particular emotion.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Person
  • Emotion
  • Just

• As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Love
  • Me
  • Inspired

• I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Know

• I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • My Life

• All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • May
  • Dream

• I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Friend
  • Government
  • Evidence

• The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Way
  • Succeed
  • Build

• Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Day
  • Legal
  • Offensive

• When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Career
  • Door
  • Tragedy

• Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Positive

• I've learned that one thing about my life that is certain is trouble.

  

  T.I.
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Trouble

• Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Never
  • Moment
  • New York

• Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Work
  • Pain
  • Easy

• Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball

  

  Jay-Z
  • Up
  • Time
  • Praying

• I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Writing
  • Films
  • Painter

• I did the co-writing thing all through the '90s and I got one hit out of it - a Keith Urban song called 'But For The Grace Of God' - but then I got burnt out.

  

  Jane Wiedlin
  • God
  • Writing
  • Song

• I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine article. At that time I sent it to Esquire and Playboy, but anyway, I kept writing, and all of sudden I had enough and thought, well maybe it is a book.

  

  Don Novello
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Book