Gary Ackerman Quotes
From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.Gary Ackerman
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
Zara Larsson -
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
Saint Ignatius -
Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
Carice van Houten -
I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
Imran Amed -
Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
Aaron Sorkin
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Time was God's first creation.
Walter Lang -
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt Whitman -
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie -
I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
Sam Worthington -
I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
Warren Christopher -
Leaks are always bad news.
Valerie Plame
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
Yoko Ono -
I can't cook to save my life.
Vidya Balan -
Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
T. Boone Pickens -
If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.
Victor Koo -
I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
Candace Bushnell -
Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.
Uwe Boll
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I loved working with Eva Longoria.
Anna Faris -
I trust my makeup artist to apply dark lipstick, but I get nervous about reapplying it, so I'll just use gloss instead. The last time I tried to reapply dark lipstick, I dropped it on my dress and it left a spot.
Jessica Biel -
While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.
Dario Fo -
As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.
Gary Ackerman