Chuck Knox Quotes

They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.

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• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Couple
  • Acting
  • Born

• The ADA is essential in helping me overcome the obstacles I face as a Wounded Warrior and empowers me to assist other veterans. It allows me to be physically active, have my pilot's license, and serve in Congress.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Helping
  • Obstacles
  • Warrior

• I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Party
  • Day
  • Years

• I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Family
  • Farmers
  • Budhana

• I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• 'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Single
  • Problem

• I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Idea

• I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Myself

• In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Art
  • Today
  • Culture

• As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Great
  • Business
  • Change

• Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Mean
  • Show
  • Just Because

• An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Action
  • Ethical
  • Pragmatic

• But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Game
  • Finding
  • Literary

• I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Remember
  • Comedy

• I lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for about 10 years, and then we moved out to Jersey City after my wife and I bought a house up in the Catskills. I miss Brooklyn, but the commute to the Catskills is about 45 minutes shorter.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Up
  • House
  • City

• My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Education
  • Focus
  • Successful

• Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

  

  Edmund White
  • Better
  • Determined
  • Rather

• Celebrity is very weird.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Weird
  • Celebrity

• I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Want
  • Exist
  • Entertainment

• Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Up
  • Time
  • Character

• During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous.

  

  Melissa Bank
  • Experience
  • Distance
  • Discover

• They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.

  

  Chuck Knox
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  • Run
  • Trick