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I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing a play before I move to a film.

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• Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Winning
  • Losing
  • Margin

• Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Real
  • Moral
  • Start

• I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Up
  • Age
  • Pretty

• I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Real
  • Job
  • Got

• There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • God
  • Job
  • America

• Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Amazing

• When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Movie
  • Change
  • Nice

• The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.

  

  Waldemar Januszczak
  • World
  • Men
  • Thinking

• My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Song

• When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just focus on acting.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Pretty

• The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Life
  • Real
  • Attention

• We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Beautiful
  • Lake
  • Purple

• Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Wise
  • Young
  • Characters

• Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Dream
  • Education

• Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • City
  • Texas
  • Worth

• Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Great
  • Doing
  • Well

• The world does not have an Islam problem; the world has a dignity problem.

  

  Rand Paul
  • World
  • Problem
  • Islam

• My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Job
  • Interesting
  • Quality

• I can do a good John Wayne.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • I Can
  • John Wayne

• What I love about how my career has gone up to this point is that I've always, always put my head down on my pillow at night, and I've been able to say that I've done, honestly, what I've felt like I wanted to do. And that's really all you can hope for in everything you do.

  

  Debbie Gibson
  • Up
  • Done
  • Hope

• Humankind is conceived as primarily motivated by neurochemically mediated emotions resulting from genetic make-up and environmental influences, employing reason and engaging in conscious reflection only occasionally.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Up
  • Reflection
  • Motivated

• I've never done online dating, but first of all, I have a book out called 'Make It Last Forever: The Do's and The Dont's,' which led me to do the online dating thing. A lot of people respect my relationship songs, so they can pretty much trust me.

  

  Keith Sweat
  • People
  • Done
  • Book

• I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing a play before I move to a film.

  

  John C. Reilly