Bonnie L. Oscarson Quotes
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'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.
Ralph Waite -
Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
Gary Wright -
Women are complicated. We all know that.
Candice Swanepoel -
Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.
Victoria Principal -
I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.
Zadie Smith -
As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.
Adam Garcia -
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
Edith Wharton -
Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.
Imelda May -
Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.
Dan Shechtman -
I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot of 'whoah whoa whoahs,' this stadium thing. You're even getting that from some of the 'folk' groups. I can't stand it.
Oscar Isaac -
Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
Beau Garrett
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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
Livy -
I don't care if I put people off.
Paul Watson -
I didn't have much confidence in myself... never.
Maurice Sendak -
Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
Kingman Brewster, Jr. -
I told my kids, 'It doesn't matter if this person or that person in the family isn't perfect; this is what you've got. We have to work with that, and if you can't work with that, then you're just jumping into someone else's family, and there's always going to be something missing if you don't work that out.'
Cynthia Robinson -
I'm afraid that the act of writing is so scary and anxiety-filled that I never laugh at all. In fact, when people tell me that such and such a scene or story is comical, I tend to gape. I did not intend comedy - ever, as far as I know. It's probably all a mistake. I am essentially a lugubrious writer. Ha ha!
Cynthia Ozick
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Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much.
Al-Waleed bin Talal -
'Freaks and Geeks' was my favorite show when it was on, by a wide measure. And that's the show I wanted to do. I noodled with the idea of doing a show about teenagers that told small stories, small moments of personal growth.
Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty -
I am a defender of the Tea Party.
Andrew Breitbart -
I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'.
John Hurt -
I think from the very beginning with 'We Are Young,' there was never any question about where we wanted the song to go and what we wanted it to sound like. And we knew that we wanted it to be big, we wanted it to be booming over the speakers at an arena or something.
Andrew Dost Fun. -
What a great privilege it is to be here.
Bonnie L. Oscarson