Tom Petty Quotes
I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
Raney Aronson-Rath -
After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
Becki Newton -
I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
Tatiana Maslany -
I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. King -
John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
D. B. Sweeney -
My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
Naomi Klein
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
V. S. Naipaul -
I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
Natalie Cole -
I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
Zooey Deschanel -
Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
Octavia Spencer -
Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
Ian Watson -
Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
Parker Posey
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
Vince Vaughn -
I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
Zubin Mehta -
I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.
Patricia MacLachlan -
I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.
Dana Carvey -
I've tried to go out of my comfort zone to experiment with comedy onscreen.
Ram Charan -
Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
Ford Frick
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Wrestling really is kind of the highest form of theater.
Betty Gilpin -
For about 125 years, give or take, the Canadian government has acted extremely badly - even in a way which should be called evil - breaking treaties, breaking agreements.
John Ralston Saul -
With the big publishers, they publish 50 books and promote five.
Marissa Moss -
Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
Taylor Swift -
There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.
Elizabeth I -
I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers