Jonathan Cain Quotes

When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone.

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• The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Time
  • God
  • Person

• Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Path
  • Genius
  • Beaten Path

• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • War
  • Boy
  • Hero

• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Chance
  • Production
  • Number

• I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Character
  • Defending

• I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Money
  • Know
  • Myself

• Sleep is the best meditation.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Best
  • Sleep
  • Dreams

• My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Father
  • Death
  • House

• Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Thought
  • Only
  • Medals

• Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • May
  • Everything
  • Details

• I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Love
  • Artist

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Work
  • Sometimes
  • Work Hard

• If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Best
  • Organization
  • Step

• By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • People
  • Job
  • Ideas

• If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • You
  • Nice
  • Promise

• 'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • World
  • Power
  • Morality

• When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Up
  • School
  • Book

• I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Rest
  • Acting

• When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • World
  • School
  • Home

• You have to laugh at things in order to let them be what they truly are. Because nothing is only sad. Nothing is only funny. There's context to all of those things.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Funny
  • Sad

• Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

  

  Joan Didion
  • Life
  • Time
  • Night

• There is neither source nor end, for all things are in the Center of Time. As all the stars may be reflected in a round raindrop falling in the night: so too do all the stars reflect the raindrop. There is neither darkness nor death, for all things are, in the Light of the Moment, and their end and their beginning are one.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • May
  • Death

• When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone.

  

  Jonathan Cain
  • Night
  • Moments
  • Trust