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My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

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• An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Done
  • Job

• Life is like a box of terrible analogies...

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Life is
  • Box

• I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Importance
  • Sleeves
  • Suggestiveness

• Here you are, you're a liberal, probably define peace as the absence of conflict. I define peace as the ability to defend yourself and blow your enemies into smithereens.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Enemy
  • Ability
  • Conflict

• What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Heart
  • Guy
  • Usual

• Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve.

  

  Rich Little
  • Forget
  • Masters
  • Sleeves

• You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.

  

  Ernie Isley The Isley Brothers
  • Realize
  • Weight
  • Consequences

• If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Insane
  • Collected

• Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Prayer

• My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

  

  Rudolph A. Marcus
  • School
  • Home
  • Science

• I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song

• I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

  

  James Brown
  • Men
  • Smart
  • Nursery

• Well you are fresh Your face is fabulous Don’t forget you’re one of a kind When nobody’s checking the deeds you’ve done And nobody’s hearing your cries You make all the fashion statements Just by dressing up your mind ((Beauty in Ugly))

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Done

• I have a great love of animals and laughter.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Great
  • Laughter
  • Animals

• I would say that if something has an aesthetic value and it is pleasing to watch or to wear, it may in fact have nothing to do with status symbol. You just like to wear it.

  

  Emilio Pucci
  • May
  • Value
  • Values

• Beauty is a social necessity.

  

  James Goldsmith
  • Beauty
  • Social
  • Necessity

• The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Book
  • Loss
  • Cookbook

• His [Sam Fuller] self-discipline was amazing. No matter what happened, he'd always go out to his Royal Upright typewriter and just keep working on his stories, his "yarns" as he called them.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Amazing
  • Matter
  • Discipline

• Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Results
  • Plans

• All of us can't wait to get out there whatever way.

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • Way
  • Wait

• The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation is unnecessary, and cannot be indulged in to narrow or enlarge the text; but where there is ambiguity or doubt, or where two views may well be entertained, contemporaneous and subsequent practical construction is entitled to the greatest weight.

  

  Melville Fuller
  • Constitution
  • Interpretation
  • Ambiguity

• My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

  

  Moon Unit Zappa
  • Sleeves
  • Bathing
  • Turtlenecks