Terrence Mitchell Riley (Terry Riley) Quotes
I had always been more interested in playing and improvising than sitting down at a desk and writing out a piece. I'd always found it more fun to play, and the other a little bit tedious. I always had trouble with the decisions.Terrence Mitchell Riley
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
Ban Ki-moon -
The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
Vince McMahon -
If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.
Dana Rohrabacher -
I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
Nargis Fakhri -
For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
Kate Walsh -
Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
Sam Worthington
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I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.
Gary Lineker -
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
S. Ansky -
I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.
Daisy Fuentes -
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
Ovid -
Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.
Barton Gellman -
To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
Ai Weiwei
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I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.
Derek Bailey -
Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln.
Neil Cavuto -
Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.
Kevin Bacon -
I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. And to me that's something I'm working on now. I'm not really that difficult or complex a person, so it's interesting to me that it's just so much harder for me to play an everygirl.
Christina Ricci -
I suggest school buses make stops at local libraries so that children who do not have resources like books at home can get access.
Marley Dias -
A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system.
Janet Yellen
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When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
John le Carre -
I don't go to pubs.
Peter Capaldi -
The temple of art is built in words.
J. G. Holland -
I'm never happier when writing than when I see gags taking shape - ideally, gags at my own expense. What I like is the shuttling back and forth, serious into comedy and vice-versa, ideally, both in the same sentence, or even simultaneously. The best jokes are always ideas in miniature.
Geoff Dyer -
The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I had always been more interested in playing and improvising than sitting down at a desk and writing out a piece. I'd always found it more fun to play, and the other a little bit tedious. I always had trouble with the decisions.
Terrence Mitchell Riley