Avery Sunshine (Denise Nicole White) Quotes

Deep down, you do want a Grammy, you do want an Oscar. You do want people to acknowledge what you've done.

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• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Needs
  • Cuba
  • Dose

• Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Time
  • Road
  • Path

• Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Up
  • She
  • Age

• I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Future
  • Teacher
  • Test

• I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.

  

  Young Thug
  • Want
  • Forever
  • Rap

• We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • House
  • Small
  • Air

• I think to get a title shot, you need to have some expressive winnings.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Think
  • You
  • Need

• I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, sometimes it's almost a whole show where I wing it. It depends on my mood, the energy in the room. For sure, a portion of it is just kind of winging it.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Energy
  • Kind
  • Sometimes

• But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn’t it? – and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
  • Time
  • Wisdom

• Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll have a lot more fun in life.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Life
  • Long
  • Fun

• I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Women
  • Words
  • Cancer

• I like to see other bands, and I like to hear their songs, but I really like it when they engage the audience.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi

• I write slowly, and I write many, many drafts. I probably have to work as hard as anyone, and maybe harder, to finish a poem. I often write a poem over years, because it takes me a long time to figure out what to say and how best to say it.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• We are acknowledging the close personal nature of our 10 years at war and the strong bonds of fidelity that Marines have for one another, especially for those fellow Marines who we have lost.

  

  James F. Amos
  • War
  • Nature
  • Strong

• In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.

  

  Krzysztof Kieslowski
  • Life
  • Real

• I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

  

  Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • See

• I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.

  

  Linda Hunt
  • People

• Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called 'the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.' These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.

  

  Bernice King
  • Believe
  • Father
  • Community

• Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

  

  John Barth
  • Life
  • Hero

• Deep down, you do want a Grammy, you do want an Oscar. You do want people to acknowledge what you've done.

  

  Avery Sunshine
  • People
  • Want
  • Acknowledge