Ira Glasser Quotes
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
Nancy Kress -
Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
Tatjana Patitz -
If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
Oskar Schindler -
If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
Ian Anderson -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
Umberto Eco -
You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
Cam Gigandet -
I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
Kajal Aggarwal -
My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
Federico Fellini -
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm Forbes -
I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
Barbara Corcoran
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
Barney Frank -
I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
Kajal Aggarwal -
I definitely enjoy the kind of magic that happens being on stage with a group when everything's working. The vibe when that's happening gets even better if the audience is involved and you can feel that interaction. That's something you don't get with your headphones on in a studio; it's much different.
Washed Out -
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
Dani Shapiro -
You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. That means new technologies.
Ramez Naam
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I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well.
Dustin Hoffman -
I really, really, loved being an elected official. But I also love what I'm doing now. I thrive when I can fight for people and I'm doing it now as a lawyer.
Angela Alioto -
In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
Imran Amed -
God is not in strength but in truth.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.
Ira Glasser