Gene Saks Quotes
For me, I had to overcome shyness to be an actor. But as a director, you lose your subjectivity, your self-consciousness. And instead of just your role, it's the life of the whole play that becomes a reflection of you.Gene Saks
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
Abbey Clancy -
The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
Gail Collins -
I want to stop transforming and just start being.
Ursula Burns -
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
Eartha Kitt -
To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
Jack Keane -
Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
Adam Cohen
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
Nathan Myhrvold -
If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
Manoj Bhargava -
I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
Camila Alves -
We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.
Omar Ahmad -
You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. Abrams
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
Vera Wang -
The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
Nancy Pelosi -
I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
Manolo Blahnik -
Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
Jack McBrayer -
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.
Jillian Bach -
I am going to do as much as I can do, because I hate to do anything and not give my all.
Angie Martinez -
Life is only error,And death is knowledge.
Friedrich Schiller -
I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.
Alexandra Fuller -
For me, I had to overcome shyness to be an actor. But as a director, you lose your subjectivity, your self-consciousness. And instead of just your role, it's the life of the whole play that becomes a reflection of you.
Gene Saks