Neil Tennant Quotes

We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.

Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys

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• A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Healthy
  • Research
  • Economics

• If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • House
  • You

• Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?

  

  C. V. Raman
  • World
  • Work
  • Friend

• People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Hat
  • Off

• Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
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  • Sensitive
  • Muscles

• I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Couple
  • Got

• I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Wall
  • New York

• That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Positive

• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Why
  • She
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• I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Jokes
  • Stolen
  • References

• America is huge.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • America
  • Huge

• It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Science
  • Reason
  • Authority

• If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Value
  • Positive
  • Unexpected

• If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

  

  Gary Busey
  • You
  • Short
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• I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • She
  • Know
  • Amazing

• I'm thrilled I got to work with James Ponsoldt, who is going to make his mark on this industry.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Work
  • Industry
  • Going

• The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in a sexual way. But it says one of the simplest things you could ever say, which is that we must try and be inside each other. We must have some kind of feeling for each other and enter into each other's experience.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Giving

• It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Fun
  • Learn
  • Lovely

• I want to act, I want to write, and I need to follow good directors.

  

  James Corden
  • Good

• Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct.

  

  Robert Frost
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Why

• We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.

  

  Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys
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