Maureen Dowd Quotes
If Americans are worried about money in politics, there is no larger concern than the Clintons, who are cosseted in a world where rich people endlessly scratch the backs of rich people.Maureen Dowd
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
Zola Jesus -
Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
Sam Graves -
A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
Kamisese Mara -
The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
Randall Munroe
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
Dan Webster -
I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
Irvin D. Yalom -
I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
Vanity -
In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
Edgar Meyer -
You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
Naomi Watts -
I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
Tate Taylor
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
Carly Fiorina -
It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
Pardis Sabeti -
By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
Cameron Mackintosh -
I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.
Natalie Cole -
L.A.'s always been good to me.
Raekwon -
I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
Gary Lucas
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I'm an absolute fan of Angela Bassett. I think she's a great, great actress. In the biopics, she is so moving. She's very rare. It's something that doesn't happen that much, to see an actress inventing a new way of showing 'woman' onscreen, and a new way of being beautiful.
Arnaud Desplechin -
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
E. Stanley Jones -
I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.
Jack Nicklaus -
I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.
Andy Williams -
If Americans are worried about money in politics, there is no larger concern than the Clintons, who are cosseted in a world where rich people endlessly scratch the backs of rich people.
Maureen Dowd