Marian McPartland Quotes

By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.

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• I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • School
  • Girl
  • Lipstick

• It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Dog
  • Fight
  • Size

• Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Beauty

• Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art

• Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Believe
  • You
  • I Believe

• Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Time
  • Long
  • Interesting

• You shouldn't talk about yourself all the time - most of us aren't for sale. Our books are. Talk about them. It's not a question of whether or not you're fascinating on a personal level - it's that your trivia and trials might not have any connection to the tone, tenor and sense of your books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • Question
  • Yourself

• I want to bring that old soul back, the meaningful lyrics and all of that. And I can't think of a better way to do that than through Motown.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Soul
  • Think
  • Better

• There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Traffic
  • Extra
  • Extra Mile

• Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Me

• America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Character
  • America
  • Islam

• And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Believe
  • You
  • Running

• It's hard for me to take your despair very seriously, Doctor. You obviously enjoy it so much.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky

• Moonlight on canvas, midnight and wine,Two shadows starting to softly combine.The picture they're paintingIs one of the heart;And to those who have seen it,It's a true work of art.Oh, the red strokes,Passions uncaged;Thundering moments of tenderness rage.Oh, the red strokes,Tempered and strong (Fearlessly drawn),Burning the night like the dawn.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Art

• With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Confidence
  • Courage
  • Balance

• Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

  

  Livy
  • Men
  • Clever

• Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • Lies

• My message is - keep moving. If you do, you'll keep arthritis at bay.

  

  Donna Mills
  • Moving

• There is no question that the conditions we are seeing at the New Orleans convention center are deplorable. This is one of the worst disasters our nation has ever faced and the challenges to getting people out of harm's way are immeasurable. Some relief efforts, such as those at the convention center, are not moving as quickly or as smoothly as we would like.

  

  Hal Rogers
  • People
  • Question
  • Moving

• Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • People
  • Revolutions
  • Materialism

• Have things to look forward to: Plan a trip, treat yourself to the spa, make plans in the future so that you can focus on what you're looking forward to versus how unbearable your present is. Understand that your brain is detaching. It's the same part of the brain that is activated as a cocaine user feening for their next fix. You're literally in withdrawal. Understand that it takes time for your brain and neural pathways to detach. You're not going crazy - it's just a process, and that process takes time.

  

  Amy Chan
  • Things
  • Understand
  • Look

• To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

  

  Mary Renault
  • Hate
  • Excellence

• Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Career
  • City
  • Start

• By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill.

  

  Marian McPartland