Jo Stafford Quotes

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

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• If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Time
  • Control
  • Eyes

• I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Civilization
  • Felt
  • Poison

• There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Long
  • Children
  • Lost

• I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • World
  • Love
  • Feeling

• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • End

• Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Board
  • Chairman

• I don't read books.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Books
  • Read

• One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Saying
  • Starting

• I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Style
  • Clothes
  • Dress

• He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Nature
  • Know
  • Familiar

• I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.

  

  Raekwon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Artist
  • Find
  • Now

• Everything I experience influences everything I do.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Experience
  • Everything

• Of course I would never compare myself to someone who actually went through a war, but I definitely matured shooting 'The Pacific.' I'm more calm and I have more patience.

  

  Rami Malek
  • War
  • Myself
  • Patience

• I've conducted my campaign thus far in the true American political tradition: I lied about my intention to run ... I have been consistently vague on all the issues ... Therefore I promise you all, my fellow Americans, that I will continue to make promises that I will be unable to fulfill.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • American
  • True
  • Political

• Secrets of the cosmos will begin to unravel. I, for one, can't wait.

  

  Lisa Randall

• The less we show our love to a woman,Or please her less, and neglect our duty,The more we trap and ruin her surelyIn the flattering toils of philandery.

  

  Alexander Pushkin

• At one point, I quit acting for a little bit to study psycholinguistics - somewhat a more practical career. It just didn't feel right.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Career
  • Study

• As a source of objective morality, the Bible is one of the worst books we have. It might be the very worst, in fact-if we didn't also happen to have the Qur'an.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Bible

• There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The most compelling aspect of his work was his intimacy with nature.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Poetry

• Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Lies

• Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy, anything that has a good story.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Comedy

• The reality is we live in a world of scarce resources in this veil of tears, as Tony Abbott often describes the world, we have to be real, we have to accept that we can't spend as much money on everything as we would like and so we have chosen to re prioritise, to change spending.

  

  Chris Bowen
  • World
  • Real
  • Reality

• I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

  

  Jo Stafford