Bergen Evans Quotes

It the dash is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.

Bergen Evans

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• I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Death
  • Night

• I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.

  

  Bai Ling
  • You
  • Chinese
  • Follow

• No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • You
  • Matter
  • Afraid

• Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

  

  Ralph Ransom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Travel
  • Luxury
  • Cuddling

• I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.

  

  N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
  • Way
  • Like
  • Shadow

• Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Political
  • Way
  • Explore

• All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Reality
  • Explore
  • Ups And Downs

• Jay Hov about to change my name to Jay Pesobut in a meantime called me William H thoughon a platinum Yamaha got the engine gunningthrowing it up like liquor on an empty stomach.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Up

• My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Work
  • Respect

• We're so used to financing things on our own that we always have a plan in place to sort of scale our ideas.

  

  Burnie Burns

• But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Heart
  • Grandparents
  • Uncle

• There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

  

  James Cameron
  • People
  • Faith

• We recognised from the start that we couldn't just stay in the U.K. and Ireland markets. We have always looked to the products of the future. I've always said, 'If you don't innovate, you'll evaporate.'

  

  Martin Naughton
  • Future

• I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing.

  

  Donal Logue
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Strong

• I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!

  

  Kathryn Lasky
  • Professional

• To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

  

  Dave Barry
  • World

• Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television?

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Good
  • Why

• I've been auditioning since I'm nine years old. Honestly, most of my friends I've met in audition rooms because you're always auditioning.

  

  Kether Donohue
  • Friends

• If you're undercover for two or three years, I think you lose your private life.

  

  Baran Odar
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Years

• We find that people's beliefs about their efficacy affect the sorts of choices they make in very significant ways. In particular, it affects their levels of motivation and perseverance in the face of obstacles. Most success requires persistent effort, so low self-efficacy becomes a self-limiting process. In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, strung together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Life
  • Together

• It the dash is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.

  

  Bergen Evans
  • Thinking
  • Danger
  • Punctuation