Jake Tapper Quotes

My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!

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• Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
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  • Music

• 'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.

  

  Aaron Neville
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  • Home

• Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

  

  Abbie Cornish
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  • Remember
  • Night

• I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

  

  Lana Del Rey
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• I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?

  

  Quentin Bryce
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  • Believe
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• I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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  • Age
  • Parents

• I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.

  

  Rachel Ward
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  • Age
  • Acting

• I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

  

  Larry David
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• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
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• To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.

  

  Karl Malone
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• I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.

  

  Gary Oldman
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• Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.

  

  Fran Drescher
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• One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.

  

  Ted Allen
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• Public-Private Partnership in financing, service delivery and provision of workspaces and training of trainers must be promoted to meet the demand and supply gap in the field of skill development.

  

  Pallam Raju
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• Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
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  • God
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• Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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  • Father
  • Parents

• My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom, Dad, I really want to luge.' And your parents are like: 'O.K., I'll quit my job. We'll move to an Alpine community.'

  

  Douglas Coupland
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• I always say that my job is not to think about today. My job is to look around the corner and feel and see what's coming, and then warn everybody else.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
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  • Today

• I want to be on the field. It's a better place to talk to the guys. It's a relaxed atmosphere. You want to make sure you know what's going on, not just with the hitters.

  

  Don Mattingly

• In Baltimore, I was walking with a friend who was playing at a pub he kept referring to as the Horse. But when I saw the sign 'The Horse You Came In On' - I thought, 'My God.' I had no intention of ever setting a Jury novel in the U.S., but when I saw that, I thought, 'That's it.' The names are very important.

  

  Martha Grimes
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  • Important
  • Friend

• I always get so excited when I get to go to my friends at corporate offices. I am always, like, looking around. I think that's really exciting to be a part of an actual corporate office.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Friends

• My job, in general, is nonfiction, so writing fiction was liberating. If you can't find the answer to something, you just make it up!

  

  Jake Tapper
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