Rick Perlstein Quotes

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

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• Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of the day, the job I do, it's more about the art and craft of it. If you're good at what you do, there's a place for you in the industry, no matter what you or your skin look like.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Good
  • Art
  • Job

• The British have always made terrible parents.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Parents
  • Always
  • British

• Clients don't expect perfection from the service providers they hire, but they do expect honesty and transparency. There is no better way to demonstrate this than by acknowledging when a mistake has been made and humbly apologizing for it.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Mistake
  • Service
  • Honesty

• All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success. Even Adele, and the people that you wouldn't put in the same category as a gangster rapper. These women have exposed their vulnerabilities, demons, and things that have hurt them.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• On Tumblr, I'm really careful about not following too many things. I enjoy going on there to discover new things more than anywhere else now.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Enjoy
  • New
  • New Things

• I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Happy
  • Song
  • Know

• I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Wife
  • Said
  • Interview

• Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Worried
  • Troubled
  • Attorney

• The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Time
  • Me
  • Experiences

• The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Important
  • Job

• God is much greater than anything we can imagine.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • Imagine
  • Greater

• Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Sense
  • Word
  • Century

• As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Want
  • Know
  • Cancer

• I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Always
  • Pure
  • Sciences

• Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Luck

• Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Change
  • English
  • Matter

• Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Wish
  • Thought
  • Saying

• I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Time
  • Food
  • Fish

• I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Think
  • Game
  • Win

• I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Family
  • Black

• She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Live
  • Women
  • She

• You know the one with the big ears? Wait a minute, he ain't my president, he might be yours, he ain't my president. You know that woman he had singing for him, singing my song - she's gonna get her a- whipped. The great Beyoncé But I can't stand Beyoncé. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol' president day singing my song that I've been singing forever.

  

  Etta James
  • Business
  • Woman
  • Singing

• Political correctness has become a straightjacket.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Political
  • Become

• I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

  

  Rick Perlstein
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  • Second
  • Literary