Phil Jackson Quotes
We got them mired into our style of play. They were playing at a level above us and we got them to come down to our level. ... We just couldn't seem to finish it.Phil Jackson
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
Ira Sachs -
I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
Pat Benatar -
In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
Edmund White -
The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
Sachin Bansal -
Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
Yael Stone -
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
Eartha Kitt -
I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
Carl Icahn -
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
Maiara Walsh -
To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a 'khali' is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.
Basmah bint Saud
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I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!
Laetitia Casta -
I've never played a character that would sing.
Katey Sagal -
I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
Valerie June -
Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
Yasmine Bleeth -
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
Orson Welles -
Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Viewers figure, 'Uncle Willard doesn't know any more about the weather than I do.' They're right.
Willard Scott -
I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.
Ferdinand Foch -
I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up!
Nate Berkus -
I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.
Jennifer Damiano -
We got them mired into our style of play. They were playing at a level above us and we got them to come down to our level. ... We just couldn't seem to finish it.
Phil Jackson