Sam Abell Quotes

'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography.

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• I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Crazy
  • Shoes
  • Napoleon

• I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • People
  • Pain
  • Myself

• I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Want
  • Project

• For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Work
  • Know
  • Deal

• In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I think I need security.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Think
  • Need
  • Security

• It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Great
  • Think
  • Me

• I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Working
  • New
  • January

• The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Great
  • Different
  • America

• I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.

  

  Owen Benjamin
  • Time
  • Children
  • Dad

• The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Die
  • Day
  • Myself

• Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.

  

  LaToya London
  • Family
  • American
  • House

• We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Time
  • War
  • History

• What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Done
  • Kind
  • Amazing

• Musical theater is one of my passions.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Theater
  • Musical
  • Passions

• My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Creativity
  • Same
  • Hat

• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Deep
  • Very
  • New Years

• Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Taken

• In the Everybody-Give-Me-A-Hug victim culture in which we live, the obese want a spot at the table along with those who face discrimination based on the way that God or Nature or our Intelligent Designer created us.

  

  John Ridley
  • God
  • Live
  • Nature

• If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• 'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Woman