Ben Brantley Quotes
It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement.Ben Brantley
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
P. C. Cast -
The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
Dan Pink -
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler -
You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
Daisy Fuentes -
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Sallust -
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
Kajal Aggarwal -
I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
Taylor Dayne -
There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
T. J. Miller -
It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
Harry Caray -
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
Barbara Deming -
As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
Yochai Benkler
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
Veronica Roth -
That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
Cara Delevingne -
Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
Yvonne Strahovski -
Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
Harriet Tubman -
I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
Carla Gugino -
They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Abigail Adams -
You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.
Carlos Ghosn -
Whatever comes my way I'm basically interested in.
Blythe Danner -
As you try to tweak your sleep one way or the other, you might be, you might be doing great - you might do better at remembering details of an event, but you might end up being poorer at abstracting the gist or the rules associated with it.
Matthew Walker -
Marriage isn't the end-point of a relationship. It's just a stepping stone, one aspect of a long-term evolution between two people who have, for whatever reason, decided to take a leap of faith and say, 'Well, hey, this is a person who I want to try with for the rest of my life.' Which is not a guarantee of perfection - far from it.
Marjorie Liu -
It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement.
Ben Brantley