Elizabeth Chandler Quotes
I think I’m dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.
Elizabeth Chandler
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
V. S. Naipaul
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
Carl Sandburg
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
Edie Brickell
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
Patricia Polacco
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
Iggy Azalea
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
Barry Marshall
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As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.
Irwin Winkler
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Since I'm a Minnesotan, that bragging thing is a little hard.
Betsy Hodges
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Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source of pleasure to which many people can relate.
Danny Meyer
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For me, the bottom line is what's on the page.
Jimmy Smits
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You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.
Kenny Rogers
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When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea.
Jo Nesbo
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When I came into the gym, I wasn't just some guy. I was a two-time Olympian.
Daniel Cormier
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I am not a comic, I have never told a joke...The comedian's promise is that he will go out there and make you laugh with him...My only promise is that I will try to entertain you as best I can....They say, 'Oh wow, Andy Kaufman, he's a really funny guy.' But I'm not trying to be funny. I just want to play with their heads.'
Andy Kaufman
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I have so much respect for him. He really just does what his heart is telling him to do. He was amazing to work with and really just a brilliant guy.
Marc Singer
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I think I’m dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.
Elizabeth Chandler
