Maurice Gibb Quotes

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

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• My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • School
  • Character

• Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Today
  • inspirational

• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Children
  • Start

• I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.

  

  Banks
  • Up
  • Important
  • Think

• It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Women

• I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Star

• Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Trust
  • Never
  • Hippie

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

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Coffee

• I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Bored

• I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.

  

  Ted Dekker
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  • Challenge
  • Write

• Decisions are made by those who show up.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Show
  • Decisions

• It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.

  

  Karl Urban
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

  

  Edith Piaf
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  • Like
  • Person

• I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.

  

  Carly Chaikin
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  • Work
  • Morning

• I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Eyes

• I love to cook. I'd hoped by now I'd have a big loft. I have this fantasy that between 12 and 4, if you're in New York, it's known that I'll be serving a meal and you can just show up. You can watch TV, hang out, nap. Once a month. Wouldn't that be nice?

  

  Cara Buono
  • Up
  • Love
  • Nice

• Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.

  

  Amy Chua
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Happy
  • Care
  • Audiences

• All of a sudden, I was in charge of my own decisions in the studio, and I didn't have someone to guide me on what I was doing, right or wrong... I wasn't a producer, and I didn't realize until then how important producers were and how much they assisted me in my work. I tried to do what I could, but I had no idea what would be good for the market.

  

  Johnny Mathis
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  • Work
  • Important

• But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it.

  

  Andrew Eldritch The Sisters of Mercy
  • Long
  • Job
  • Waiting

• Everyone is really getting along with each other and we enjoy each others company and love playing live.

  

  Billy Sherwood Yes
  • Live

• As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

  

  Maurice Gibb Bee Gees
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