L. Whitney Clayton Quotes

Terrific marriages are completely respectful, transparent and loyal.

L. Whitney Clayton

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• More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers' union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Parents
  • Education
  • Down

• What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Real
  • House

• I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Travel
  • Promote
  • Commercials

• There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Start
  • Late
  • Silicon Valley

• The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Great
  • American
  • Period

• The less I talk about being black, the better.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Black
  • Better
  • Talk

• All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Growth
  • Sound
  • Down

• What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Important
  • Family
  • Parents

• I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Teacher

• I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now I'm Sam Malone the editor. I'm Sam Malone the billionaire.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Real
  • Business
  • Character

• It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Character
  • Understanding

• I try to be like a forest, revitalizing and constantly growing... Kids would tease me, calling me 'Little Bush.' But... I thought being called Forest helped me find my identity.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Kids
  • Growing
  • Thought

• You go to something like the Golden Globes, and it's the most glamorous place you could ever be, but then you go home and you're still like, 'Urgh, this dress is too tight, I wanna take off these shoes and put on my pyjamas.' At the end of the night all the glamour goes away and you're just a human.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Home
  • Night
  • End

• Just when I thought things couldn’t get any stranger, I was proven wrong.

  

  Kage Baker

• Nous nous croyons purs tant que nous méprisons ce que nous ne désirons pas.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Future
  • Science

• I get writer's block all the time. The only way I can write what I consider to be good lyrics is to put myself through the mill.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Time
  • Good
  • Lyrics

• I really wanted to write a song like Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight.' It's just such a sweet sentiment. It's so simple but so genuine.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Song
  • Simple
  • Sweet

• I actually find in America, there's a slight snobbery about actors who go back and forth between big heavy dramas and popcorn fare. That always intrigues me, because that doesn't exist in the same way in Britain. And I imagine it would be worse. In terms of the sort of class, and the sort of snobby, slightly on the back-foot thing Britain has. But it's much more prevalent in America. I'm really intrigued by it. I don't know why that is. But I'm aiming to break down those barriers by being in a Shakespeare film and a Smurfs film within six months of each other.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Why
  • America
  • Actor

• I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • I Am Not
  • Admirer
  • Tiring

• I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Truth
  • Written
  • Reader

• I thought 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' was terrible. I'm a big fan of Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, so I don't know what went wrong with that.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Chocolate

• As you intend to live hereafter, it is in your power to live here.

  

  Gene Wolfe
  • Live
  • Power

• Terrific marriages are completely respectful, transparent and loyal.

  

  L. Whitney Clayton