Michael Heisley Quotes

I love Memphis. They've been good to me, the town and everything else. And quite frankly, I love the NBA and love being involved in it.

Michael Heisley

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• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Simple
  • Better
  • Voice

• For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Time
  • Me
  • First

• Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Up
  • World
  • Home

• I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Book
  • Know
  • Famous

• I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Guy
  • Like
  • Dancing

• I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Favorite
  • Pink
  • Sign

• In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.

  

  Edmund White
  • God
  • Story
  • Feathers

• I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Life
  • Professional
  • My Life

• My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Mother
  • House
  • Child

• I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Dream
  • Never
  • Dalai Lama

• We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Friends
  • Young
  • Face

• Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.

  

  Zola Budd
  • World
  • Small
  • Looking Back

• The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Real
  • Truth

• Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Character
  • Death
  • Parents

• You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Choose
  • Public

• My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Long
  • Control
  • Fall

• No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law just because they are responsible for upholding the law. Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely, just like what happened to Laquan McDonald.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Culture
  • Law
  • Abuse

• I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Like

• Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Good
  • God
  • Book

• My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to realize that one of the main sounds on those old records I loved was the guitar.

  

  Doc Watson
  • Music
  • Real

• Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.

  

  Anthony Perkins
  • People
  • Rock
  • Gay

• The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the conceptual structure and functional behavior, as distinct from the organization of the data flow and controls, the logical design, and the physical implementation. i. Additional details concerning the architecture,

  

  Fred Brooks
  • Design
  • Organization
  • Architecture

• They came out into the sunshine and the wind, one after the other like dice falling from a cup.

  

  Ursula Dubosarsky
  • Wind
  • Sunshine
  • Cup

• I love Memphis. They've been good to me, the town and everything else. And quite frankly, I love the NBA and love being involved in it.

  

  Michael Heisley
  • Good
  • Involved
  • Town