Anthony Stafford Beer Quotes
Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept.Anthony Stafford Beer
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
Padgett Powell -
My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
Daniel Baldwin -
Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
Taylor Sheridan -
Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
Carine Roitfeld -
I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
Larry Wall -
I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
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With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.
J. B. Pritzker -
I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'
Garry Marshall -
The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
Caitlin Doughty -
I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
Malcolm Mclaren -
I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that's already done. It's dress up for your hair!
Felicity Huffman -
I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
Dana Fox
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde -
But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
Dan Simmons -
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. Henry -
I say things as if they've already happened, so as I'm getting ready I can think about it and feel it, how it's going to feel to win, and I see myself getting on the podium.
Mandy Bujold -
The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?
Karen DeCrow -
Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
Zhang Yimou
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The history of literature is the history of the human mind.
William H. Prescott -
To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Michael Korda -
The main interest of most members of the Christian Coalition is the breakdown of the family. I think that's our biggest problem, and if the whole country was as concerned and active in issues of the family as members of the Christian Coalition are, we'd probably be better off as a country.
Lamar Alexander -
Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.
Seth Godin -
Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept.
Anthony Stafford Beer