Gary Giddins Quotes
I think all of us begin as writers. I wanted to be a writer from the time I as eight, long before I heard of jazz. The question is, once you have that obsession, what is your subject going to be and you often don't know for some time. It might become fiction, it might be non-fiction, and if it's non-fiction it can go in any number of directions.Gary Giddins
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
Teddy Sears -
Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
Hamza Yusuf -
I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
Olesya Rulin -
I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
Kate DiCamillo -
My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.
Natasha Lyonne -
I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
Daniel Dennett
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Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'
Karl Lagerfeld -
I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.
Queen Latifah -
I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.
Alan Ball -
I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.
Chevy Chase -
I'd like to date another millionaire. I've never done that.
Patti Stanger
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Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.
Alexander Chee -
I want to make, like, 8,000 movies.
Clara Mamet -
The only way to survive is to have a sense of humour.
Bob Newhart -
One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
Eli Wallach -
In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.
Fritz Todt -
Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.
Les Brown
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As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame
Gerard Manley Hopkins -
It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.
Freeman A. Hrabowski III -
I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.
John Cale -
I think all of us begin as writers. I wanted to be a writer from the time I as eight, long before I heard of jazz. The question is, once you have that obsession, what is your subject going to be and you often don't know for some time. It might become fiction, it might be non-fiction, and if it's non-fiction it can go in any number of directions.
Gary Giddins