Bill Geist Quotes
New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.
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We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
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I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
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You want to win the games, to win trophies.
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Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.
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When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.
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Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.
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I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.
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Winning the World Cup was a dream come true after so many years of wanting something so bad. After that final whistle, I dropped to the ground on my knees and got emotional.
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Reconciliation is a national decision that has to be debated and a consensus made among Colombians.
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My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
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I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.
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My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.
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New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.
