Studs Terkel Quotes

I never drove a car. I'm hopeless that way. I press the wrong buttons on the tape recorder. But if the person I'm interviewing helps me out, that person feels needed. People need to feel needed.

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• Good comedy is ageless.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Ageless

• I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Long
  • Choice
  • Drink

• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Internet
  • Television

• Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Proud

• My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Father

• The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Future
  • Band
  • Favorite

• I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Live
  • Relationship

• I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Good
  • Age
  • Always

• It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

  

  Edmond About
  • Men
  • Country
  • Question

• In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Book
  • Sea
  • Name

• I made nothing happen very slowly.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Nothing
  • Very
  • Happen

• Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Animals
  • Marine

• There's definitely an interest in Scotland and what happened here. I think the rest of the world are fascinated by our history, and it's nice to be able to bring Scotland and our culture and music to the screen.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • World
  • Music
  • History

• Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Work
  • Think
  • Just

• I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women... What was the war on women?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Women
  • War
  • Democrats

• A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Man
  • Support
  • Pride

• I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Different
  • Think
  • Always

• The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Very

• I think Desperate Housewives is a pretty good show, I watch it, I like it and I don't love reality tv that much. I do watch some, I've got three daughters so we'll watch the good stuff, the fun stuff.

  

  Bob Saget
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• If I rob a gas station, I'm going to get 15 years. If I steal $400 million on Wall Street, I start plea-bargaining.

  

  Powers Boothe
  • Wall

• I love Kate Moss. I've worked with her a couple of times, and she is a great girl, really funny and easy to work with.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Work
  • Great
  • She

• For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • People
  • Research
  • Senses

• Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • People
  • Experience

• I never drove a car. I'm hopeless that way. I press the wrong buttons on the tape recorder. But if the person I'm interviewing helps me out, that person feels needed. People need to feel needed.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • People
  • Car
  • Helping