Crystal Gayle (Brenda Gail Gatzimos) Quotes

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

Crystal Gayle

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• I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.

  

  Zendaya
  • Way
  • Change
  • Speak

• I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Up
  • Love
  • Bad

• There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • You
  • Reason
  • Years

• Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Like

• I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Mayor
  • Kentucky

• I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Morning
  • Japanese
  • China

• As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Why
  • Philosophy
  • Said

• Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Family
  • Home
  • Rest

• If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Time
  • Military
  • Choose

• So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Christian
  • Silent
  • Agenda

• When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Mistakes
  • System
  • Only

• I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that.

  

  Larry Page
  • Like
  • Really
  • While

• When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Start
  • Search
  • Starting

• I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Trying
  • Lost
  • Find

• Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Books

• You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • You
  • Bear
  • Often

• In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Thinking
  • Period
  • Modern

• The dawn smiles, repelling gloom, At the dawn with violence, At every meet season, At the meet season of his turnings, At the four stages of his course, I will extol him that judges violence, Of the strong din, deep his wrath. I am not a man, cowardly, gray, A scum near the wattle.

  

  Taliesin
  • Strong
  • Violence
  • Deep

• My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, I was listening to Lauryn Hill, Etta James, Joss Stone. For me, it was always about the voice.

  

  Ella McMahon
  • Listening

• It is important to exhaust the potential of existing markets. But it is equally important to open up new markets.

  

  Martin Winterkorn
  • Up
  • Important

• I'm a huge Nirvana fan and I like seeing things that at first seem out of context, but actually they're one of the biggest bands in the world. I like to see pop culture, like punk or alternative culture, clash with some other type of culture.

  

  Nick Zinner
  • Culture
  • Seeing
  • Alternatives

• I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Independent
  • Movies
  • New

• Throughout my life, I've had consistent DNA.

  

  Andra Day
  • Life

• So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

  

  Crystal Gayle