Brenda Novak Quotes

You’re so different—like a pretty rock that you almost step over because you assume it’s the same as all the others. But then you pick it up and realize how lucky you are to have found it.

Brenda Novak

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• Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Mother

• When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Done
  • Nice
  • New York

• We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Development
  • Forgive
  • Early

• I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Free
  • Action

• I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Trying
  • Loved
  • Show

• Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Important
  • Soul
  • Energy

• People are looking for software development that actually does something useful... People are looking for partners who deliver when promised, and at a reasonable and transparent price. I believe that the days of being able to value price software are numbered.

  

  Kent Beck
  • People
  • Believe
  • Value

• I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

  

  Bess Myerson
  • People

• There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

  

  Andre Breton

• There is no quick fix. At the end of the day, you still have to do the work to maintain your weight. It can't be a diet. You have to change your life.

  

  Al Roker
  • Life
  • Work

• I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.

  

  Rita Ora
  • People

• About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I knew then I had made it, and as I approached the field with all its lights, it was a simple matter to circle once and then pick a spot sufficiently far away from the crowd to land O.K.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Up
  • Simple
  • Paris

• Debra Stephenson and I are nothing more than friends and have a close working relationship - we certainly have not had an affair.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Friends
  • Relationship

• There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

  

  Douglas Feith

• 'Flaubert's Parrot' is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance.

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Book

• The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

  

  Kurt Schwitters
  • Work
  • Art
  • Picture

• I like one nice man because he gets three tickets for the cinema so we've got somewhere to put our coats. He passes the test. I've been quite surprised because I really didn't expect to be wined and dined, and it's quite nice.

  

  Anne Robinson
  • Nice

• If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.

  

  Anton du Beke

• It is sad To see the light of beauty wane away, Know eyes are dimming, bosoms shrivelling, feet Losing their springs, and limbs their lily roundness; But it is worse to feel the heart-spring gone, To lose hope, care not for the coming thing, And feel all things go to decay within us.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Lose

• The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Society
  • Question
  • Insane

• But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Color

• I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years.

  

  Gennifer Flowers
  • Relationship
  • Rock

• You’re so different—like a pretty rock that you almost step over because you assume it’s the same as all the others. But then you pick it up and realize how lucky you are to have found it.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Rock
  • Realize
  • Assume