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• The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Business
  • Lawyer
  • Camera

• There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Start
  • Agreement

• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Always
  • Majority

• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • For Her

• Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Good
  • Always
  • Sales

• I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.

  

  Sam Crawford
  • Book
  • Television
  • Gift

• Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Life
  • God
  • Why

• I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Love
  • She
  • Risks

• When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Movie
  • You
  • Movies

• When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Friends
  • Comedy
  • Stupid

• Lehi was not a part of the Zionist movement, not a part of the Revisionist Party. It was sometimes something apart, and Lord Moyne was the highest British official in the Middle East... and because we fought against the British in this area, we took him for a target.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Party
  • Sometimes
  • Movement

• Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

  Ford Frick
  • Work
  • Forget
  • Forgive

• Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• This man, though, was of that rare type that knew what he wanted but didn't want anything badly enough to demand it or beg for it or hurt anyone else in the process of getting it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Hurt

• Conservatism: Our revolutionary message … is that a self-disciplined people can create a political community in which an ordered liberty will promote both economic prosperity and political participation.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • People
  • Political
  • Community

• I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

• The secretary actually already has a good deal of authority within the confines of the Affordable Care Act. Step one really is a question of whether or not HHS will continue to reimburse insurance companies for cost-sharing expenses.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Good
  • Question
  • Insurance

• I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.

  

  Dirk Nowitzki
  • Player
  • Basketball

• Far-right states derive mass support from the perception of their success in dealing with internal or external enemies; economic matters, though certainly important, do not bear directly on state legitimacy as they do in far-left states.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
  • Important
  • Success
  • Support

• But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Giving
  • Peace

• There's this idea, particularly in pop music and a lot of these pop father/manager types, that you're selling the person instead of the song. You basically want to create something that the fans relate to because it's exactly like them. So there's a lot of art that's made to be in the image of the audience, but then the audience is imitating this version of themselves. It's a really weird cultural feedback loop, and it's kind of strange to watch. It's a new thing since I was a kid, really a different thing.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • Different
  • Art
  • Kids

• A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Silence

• Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.

  

  Washington Allston
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