Barrett Foa Quotes

Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back and just win some Tony Awards.

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• Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Interesting

• When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Light
  • Thought
  • Wall

• You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Done
  • Earth

• My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Men
  • Women
  • Goal

• There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Justice
  • Broken
  • Laws

• I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Attention
  • Day
  • End

• I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.

  

  Harry Bridges
  • Man
  • Head
  • Machine

• I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Child

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Television

• Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Water
  • Serious
  • China

• Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Confidence
  • Confident
  • Qualities

• If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Gun
  • Background
  • Desk

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Living

• We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Wanted
  • Copy
  • Leigh

• At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • House
  • Air
  • Old

• The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Idea
  • Racial
  • Gathering

• I don't think human beings have changed in 2,000 years.

  

  Andrew Dominik

• Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

  

  Carol Shields
  • Life
  • Words

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• You just put your head down and do the work.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Work

• The acquisition of Hispanic brings the top radio station and TV network players together

  

  David Joyce
  • Together
  • Players
  • Radio

• Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back and just win some Tony Awards.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Life
  • Money
  • Goal