Douglas McGrath Quotes
I can remember my sister and me volunteering for Nixon. My parents liked him. I liked my parents. So I figured he was good.Douglas McGrath
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
Isaac Hayes -
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
Damien Rice -
I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
Ted Sarandos -
The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
Walt Mossberg -
A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.
Randeep Hooda -
It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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The 100m is never stressful.
Usain Bolt -
Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
G. Gordon Liddy -
It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
Natalia Vodianova -
I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.
Irwin Winkler -
I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
Irwin Winkler -
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
Ralph Ellison
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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
Jackie Chan -
I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.
Kamala Harris -
Gas consumption is growing everywhere.
Vagit Alekperov -
Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.
Felix Frankfurter -
I pushed against doing a podcast for so long. I'm a very late comer to the podcast game. But you're responsibility as a comedian is to get your viewpoints out into the world, and we have a lot more avenues to do that. So it's a lot more opportunity, but really have to work all the time.
Kurt Braunohler -
You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.
Jerry Pournelle
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As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.
John Travolta -
I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.
Scott Spencer -
If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.
Danny Boyle -
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.
Elizabeth Gilbert -
David Lynch's 'Fire Walk With Me' has a scene in it that scared me so bad that I don't remember it. I blocked the memory out - repeatedly! I've seen the film two or three times, and I can never remember what it is that scares me.
David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven -
I can remember my sister and me volunteering for Nixon. My parents liked him. I liked my parents. So I figured he was good.
Douglas McGrath