Lee Siegel Quotes

Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations.

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• Expenditures rise to meet income.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Meet
  • Rise
  • Income

• The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Man
  • Best
  • Doubt

• When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Up
  • You
  • Bible

• I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Think
  • Glamour
  • Trashy

• Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • Men
  • Look

• I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Kids
  • You
  • Know

• I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Fun

• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Day

• I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Different
  • Relationship
  • Professional

• I always give importance to scripts first, and remuneration is something that comes later.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Always
  • First
  • Something

• Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Security
  • Year
  • Top

• The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • You
  • Place
  • Layers

• I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Think
  • Trump
  • Said

• Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A middle-aged American woman will head over, and I think, 'Game of Thrones.' Turns out it's 'The Tudors' or 'Elementary' or 'The Hunger Games.' It's always a surprise.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • American
  • Help
  • Game

• When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Funny
  • Human
  • Data

• If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

  

  Tana French
  • You
  • Need
  • Terrible

• LaRon Landry, a safety, is in incredible physical condition - really impressive. Also Anthony Castonzo, the left tackle - I'm very impressed with him. He really sets a great example for how to stay in shape - not only during the off-season but throughout the season, which can be a struggle because of the rhythm of the way things work.

  

  Andrew Luck
  • Work
  • Great
  • Struggle

• I suppose I do get sad, but not for too long. I just look in the mirror and go, 'What a f***ing good-looking f*** you are.' And then I brighten up.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • Mirror
  • Suppose
  • Goodbyes

• The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

  

  Leni Riefenstahl
  • Life
  • World
  • Alone

• I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Real
  • Know
  • Me

• Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations.

  

  Lee Siegel
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