Gerry Dee Quotes

We don't really have a star system in Canada, so to try and get people to watch your show or stand-up is always a challenge. That's the trick.

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• The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Trouble

• Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Earth
  • Class
  • Greek

• I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.

  

  Adam Green
  • Feeling
  • Climate
  • Conventions

• I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Stuff
  • Sing
  • Exciting

• An author's ability to bring a marketing synopsis to the table - along with a great manuscript - makes a difference in what books get picked up. This is true for both fiction and nonfiction titles. You need to show your publisher what you've got in your marketing arsenal.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Great
  • True

• Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Way

• My mum was a dancer. She would tour the world with a group, and she had me in a dance class when I was still in a nappy. They told her to come back when I could walk.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • World
  • She
  • Dance

• Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • America
  • War
  • Military

• I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Think
  • Die
  • Find

• I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Body
  • Just
  • Stand

• I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Trying
  • Reading
  • My Own

• I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Responsibility
  • Colleagues

• Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Education
  • Always
  • Humanity

• We're like a travelling circus... We're always on the go.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Like
  • Always
  • Circus

• You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Different
  • America

• When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Life
  • Food
  • Light

• Use a corrector to do all the heavy lifting under the eyes, not concealer. I spent years re-applying and layering concealer and Touche Eclat under there, when what I really needed was a good, peachy-toned corrector.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Good
  • Eyes
  • Years

• I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Tyranny
  • Standup
  • Gigs

• What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Power
  • History
  • Past

• The thing about Parsons compared to the other schools is that it really teaches you how to be a designer, whereas some of the other schools teach you to sketch or teach you the technical skills. But the curriculum at Parsons when I was there was how do you put a collection together, as well as all the technical stuff. It's the best training.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Together
  • Best
  • Training

• Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Different
  • Character
  • Game

• We don't really have a star system in Canada, so to try and get people to watch your show or stand-up is always a challenge. That's the trick.

  

  Gerry Dee
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