Clarence Douglas Dillon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
-
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
-
Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
-
I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
-
It just feels good to know the work I did, people like it and love it - and continue to like and love it. It makes me feel real good that, after 20 years, 'Regulate' is still in heavy rotation all over the United States and all over the world.
-
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
-
I've spent a lot of time being bohemian and sleeping on floors, but eventually I want to have kids and I want to bring them up in a secure environment.
-
Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
-
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
-
When I am not working, I am home. I love spending time at my house.
-
Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
-
I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.
-
I've always been a sharing person.
-
I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
-
I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
-
Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'
-
I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.
-
I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get a job. It's tough. They don't make as many films these days, and there's a lot of guys that are fighting for jobs.
-
For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.
-
As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.
-
A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.
-
Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
-
Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter.
