Alistair Cooke Quotes
People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
Alistair Cooke
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
Wang Jianlin
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
Jackie Evancho
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
Harlan Coben
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
Kate Adie
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
Zoe Saldana
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
Samuel P. Huntington
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With Asian-Americans actors, specifically, there's been fewer opportunities for them in TV and film and fewer that have the ability to actually make a career out of it. It becomes a bit of a chicken and egg situation, where they're like, 'Oh, but they're not famous names,' but they haven't had a chance to be in anything yet, either.
Jenny Han
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I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
Maya Angelou
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Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.
Max Greenfield
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I think I'm dull. I would rather watch other people.
Mia Kirshner
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After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.
Aaron Tveit
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People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
Alistair Cooke