Joseph Abboud Quotes
The decision to divorce myself from the business side unexpectedly blew up in my face. The creative freedom I thought I was getting turned out to be anything but.
Joseph Abboud
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
Wayne Huizenga
Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
Nancy Kress
It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.
Lana Turner
Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
Yotam Ottolenghi
I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G.
D. B. Sweeney
I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
Edie Campbell
He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
Sallust
I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
Valerie Plame
It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.
Oscar Isaac
I don't know many better training grounds than being mayor of San Francisco - those were pretty intense years in terms of reporting and scrutiny.
Gavin Newsom
What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? And, without asking, Whither hurried hence! Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence!
Omar Khayyam
I think that what 'Oz' did is it spawned a great generation of television production. But people know its place in television and just in great dramas. It's the foundation of my career. Most producers, show runners, directors, and casting directors put me in movies based on my performance in that show.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Love's best habit is a soothing tongue
William Shakespeare
The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it.
H. L. Mencken
I don't think people talk to me because I'm such a good, charming, good-looking guy. I don't - whether that's true or not. I think they do it because I work for a major news organization, and they think that it can probably be helpful to them and their business interests or their personal interest and what have you.
Mark Leibovich
My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.
Alice Cooper
The decision to divorce myself from the business side unexpectedly blew up in my face. The creative freedom I thought I was getting turned out to be anything but.
Joseph Abboud
