James A. Michener Quotes

I had been sent to Mexico to cover a murder, one of a remarkable kind.

James A. Michener

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• I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Artists

• I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Good
  • Great
  • Sound

• Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Pain
  • Makes
  • Chicken

• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Done
  • Die
  • Myself

• I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Power
  • Sky
  • Stars

• I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Always

• No one wears high heels all day, every day.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • High
  • Day
  • Everyday

• You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Together

• I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Good
  • Love
  • Sexy

• From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with issues of their mortality, and so the philosophy training I had taken began to seem rather important to me.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Important
  • Philosophy
  • Issues

• Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• Where liberty dies, evil grows.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Evil
  • Liberty
  • Where

• The success of 'Dhruva' has given me more satisfaction than any of my previous hits, simply because the audience accepted the film even though it was experimental. I really hope this kind of acceptance makes experimental cinema the new mainstream cinema.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Acceptance

• There was a period of time when I couldn't seem to get anything. I was on the series 'Daniel Boone,' and then, when that ended, I was still under 18, so I was too young to be in the older category and too old to be a child. So there was a few years there that were dry.

  

  Veronica Cartwright
  • Time
  • Period
  • Child

• When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Time
  • Work
  • Think

• With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Way
  • Wall
  • Street

• Of course the shrieking desire for the scoop can get really strong, but so is the desire to safeguard connections and keep everyone happy.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Happy
  • Strong
  • Desire

• The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Funny
  • Politics

• Hanging out with Pierce Brosnan on the set of 'A Long Way Down' was quite an extraordinary thing to do. The interesting thing is, he never behaves like a star. He's a really nice man.

  

  Jack Thorne
  • Long
  • Interesting
  • Nice

• He served with distinction, weathered storms, cold and heat. He came through it all real well and was always rearing to go. He was a great mascot.

  

  Earl Hudson Bad Brains
  • Distinction
  • Storms
  • Mascot

• I had my one guest star on The Flash, and that became several guest stars, and then they mentioned this new show.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Shows
  • Guests
  • Flash

• Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.

  

  Charles Hugh Smith
  • Feels
  • Humans
  • Information

• I had been sent to Mexico to cover a murder, one of a remarkable kind.

  

  James A. Michener