W. C. Sellar Quotes

Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

W. C. Sellar

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• I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

  

  Val Guest
  • Job
  • Comedy
  • Film

• The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Enough

• I work out every day - and my daily routine is a mix of functional and strength training.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Day
  • Training

• Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Natural
  • Wonderful
  • Richness

• Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Culture
  • Rich
  • Listen

• Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Done
  • Said
  • Returns

• Here, we have female directors and producers; in fact, one whole channel is run by a woman. Pakistani TV is progressive, and hence, characters that are shown are of today as well.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • Today
  • Woman
  • Progressive

• It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Better
  • Young
  • Old

• I attended the climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009, and back then, national governments waited until days before to submit climate plans, and the U.S. based its pledge on a proposed bill that would fail in the Senate.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Back
  • Plans
  • Days

• I think theater is a core need of a community.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Think
  • Community
  • Need

• I'm an optimist. I have always been, and I will continue to be. So I believe there's always a possibility of transforming or changing or doing something different.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Doing

• It felt when I was growing up that sport was, like, the only thing you should do... if you do music, you're really different and a bit weird.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• It is clear that while our Army was engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, Russia studied U.S. capabilities and vulnerabilities and embarked on an ambitious and largely successful modernization effort.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Effort
  • Successful
  • Army

• I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • May
  • Dumb
  • Blonde

• I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Work
  • Music
  • Feeling

• What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they the Hurricane Katrina refugees in the Houston Astrodome all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Scary
  • Texas

• There is nothing there. What you see is not what you see. What you see is nothing. Nothing but shapes, lines, colors. What you see is whats in your mind. What you see is something somebody told you to look for. Look out for anything you see! Watch it! Watch out! Take care! Don’t leap before you look out.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Mind

• The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Stock

• When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

  

  Sia LSD
  • People
  • Identity

• My country is nothing if not diverse.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Country

• I'd love to do a really cheap action movie. I'd love to do stunts. I mean, not myself. I'd hurt myself, but I'd love to direct others doing stunts. I think that would be a blast. The funny thing is, if I really think through this fantasy, I know that the way I conceive of doing an action movie would still lose money. No matter how far I think I'm getting away from myself, it always comes back to something that's not terribly commercial.

  

  Andrew Bujalski
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Hurt

• It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

  

  Carol Alt
  • Trying
  • Failure

• None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

  

  Lydia M. Child
  • Mind
  • Political
  • Jesus

• Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

  

  W. C. Sellar