Antonia Fraser Quotes

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• TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • School
  • Character
  • Period

• I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Learning
  • Survive
  • Adult

• I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Think
  • Girls
  • Horrible

• I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • People
  • Home
  • Day

• Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Want
  • Should
  • Because

• No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Real
  • Past

• My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Dad
  • College
  • Paid

• My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Future
  • Woman
  • Hell

• If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Love
  • Reflection

• If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

  

  Gary Busey
  • You
  • Short
  • Take

• Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Work
  • Men
  • Crazy

• I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Numbers
  • Manners
  • Morals

• Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Fire

• Nobody wants to retire from football.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Football
  • Nobody
  • Retire

• All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Character
  • Fire
  • Insurance

• One of the good things about losing your feet is I can wear all the pointy shoes I want, and it doesn't hurt anymore. I can wear shoes just for fashion now.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Hurt

• The thing about America - it's different everywhere, but visually, it's amazing to shoot in the desert in the New Mexico light. It's really hard to shoot in that desert and make anything look not amazing.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • Different
  • America
  • Light

• You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.

  

  Kenny Wormald
  • Long
  • Dance

• It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

  

  Antonia Fraser
  • Long