Charles Macomb Flandrau Quotes

Life is now... this day, this hour...and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.

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• The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Stop
  • Government
  • Mystery

• I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • College
  • New York

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Will
  • Follow
  • Opening

• I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Think
  • Fan
  • Fabulous

• I have had to learn about saying no.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Learn
  • Saying
  • About

• If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Come
  • Figure
  • Publicity

• Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Interest
  • Decisions
  • Back

• Despite all these obstacles and bad security situation, I have the energy and the resolve to train, but my head is full of ideas and it distracts me, and I need to focus.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • Bad
  • Energy
  • Focus

• Alexander North Whitehead is supposed to have said of Bertrand Russell: 'Bertie thinks me muddleheaded and I think Bertie simple-minded.'

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Simple

• ‘Yes, my friend,’ he said. ‘It is so easy to be an American - here in Paris! A nasal voice - the chewing gum - the little goatee - the horned-rimmed spectacles - all the appurtenances of the stage American…’

  

  Agatha Christie
  • American
  • Friend
  • Paris

• It took you momma nine months to make it, but it only took that nigga thirty minutes to take it.

  

  Outkast

• People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • People
  • God

• I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Believe

• That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.

  

  Anthony Jeselnik
  • Comedy

• San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.

  

  Chita Rivera
  • America

• Within a life that seems uncomfortably scripted by family and community pressures, hyper-religiosity can provide a way to break with parental expectations and flee from parental control.

  

  Deeyah Khan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Community

• I was a product of the relationships with my family, the environment I grew up in; all those things I kind of put on the back burner when I got into music, and my life all changed dramatically.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• If I were rewriting 'Love, Medicine & Miracles,' I might consider changing its title to 'The Side Effects of Cancer.' Healing is hard work, as is any change one must make in one's life. I and others have learned, however, that the side effects of cancer may not all be bad ones.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • Life
  • Work
  • May

• Your life's short, don't ever question the length / It's cool to cry, don't ever question your strength.

  

  Mac Miller
  • Life
  • Question
  • Cool

• Life is now... this day, this hour...and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.

  

  Charles Macomb Flandrau
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