Allan Gurganus Quotes
My mother had a master's degree and had been a schoolteacher before she started having kids at 30. But my father's family were landowners, farmer-merchants. Moneymaking was extremely important, like one of those semi-rapacious families in Lillian Hellman, where they know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Allan Gurganus
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
Taylor Kinney
I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
Dambisa Moyo
There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
Ram Shriram
I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
Naveen Jain
I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
Malcolm McDowell
If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
Dana Brunetti
In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.
Edmund Morgan
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.
Natalie Massenet
If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
P. Chidambaram
I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.
Walter Cronkite
You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.
Ian Wace
180 episodes of 'CSI: Miami' and never the same lipstick twice!
Emily Procter
Going to the movies still remains, arguably, amongst the best communal experiences that human beings can share.
Mark Canton
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Lawrence Durrell
My mom is a gym teacher, and she's not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as best she could.
Annaleigh Ashford
We're just a big media family. My mom is always sending us articles throughout the day. My husband now works at Facebook... so it's just a very high-paced media culture, our texts. It's links and photos, and all hours of the day, because my dad, my brother, and I are night owls, and my mom and my husband wake up early.
Allison Williams
My mother had a master's degree and had been a schoolteacher before she started having kids at 30. But my father's family were landowners, farmer-merchants. Moneymaking was extremely important, like one of those semi-rapacious families in Lillian Hellman, where they know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Allan Gurganus
