John Dryden Quotes
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
M. J. Rose -
'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
Patina Miller -
I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
Dan Stevens -
It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
J. D. Vance -
In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
Takashi Murakami
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I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
Banksy -
The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.
Naveen Andrews -
I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.
Harpo Marx -
I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.
Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister -
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
Uma Thurman
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Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
W. C. Fields -
I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But that's just setting it up and having somebody run it.
Majel Barrett -
This is the key thing that has always been misunderstood about me. All this fucking crap they said I did ... I only did it because I believed I was playing the actual music that was appropriate and good to reflect that time and place. ... Frankly, I've always felt I was completely innocent.
Iggy Pop -
Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
Aristophanes -
In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too.
Aldo Leopold -
I've always had visions of being a starting quarterback. That's why I come to work every day.
Brock Osweiler
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If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That's the way it is.
Frank Lampard -
Sometimes I do feel a little pressure, but not that much because we play different positions.
Willie Lanier -
In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.
Lou Holtz -
It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.
Lady Gaga -
And plenty makes us poor.
John Dryden