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“I'm not gonna marry somebody for any reason other than the fact that I've fallen in love with them. Period! Period! And they can eat it, if they wanna think any differently!!”

Author:Douglas Adams

“In the art of teaching, we recognize that ideas and insights need to cook over a period of time. Sometimes the student who is least articulate about expressing the ideas is in fact the one who is absorbing and processing them most deeply. This applies as well to our own private learning of our art form; the areas in which we feel most stuck and most incompetent may be our richest gold mine of developing material. The use of silence in teaching then becomes very powerful.”

“The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred, persons of mere effrontery-in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks.”

Persons Body Successful Periods Hundred Mere Busy Quacks Toady

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“Oh yes, the Klitschkos. They got to learn how to fight. Period. But I'll tell you one thing - they're great human specimens. And I'd be happy to be able to work with them. If they chose to work with me. They had an opportunity when they got free of Peter Kohl - they didn't come to me. You know, I'm with who's with me. And I really don't care what fighter it is. I would be happy to promote them..Who could beat Vitali? Rahman could beat Vitali. His style is suited to beat Vitali.”

Ifs Knows Humans Would Be Care Able Fighting Opportunity One Thing Style Periods Beats Don't Care Fighter Peter

Author:Don King

“I'm a legend because I've survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate - I'm still paddling the goddamned boat myself.”

Long Stills Seems Fate Masters Periods Boat Legends Survived Long Periods Of Time Paddling

Author:Katharine Hepburn

“Good preparation is key for me. Nowadays everyone is an actor slash writer, slash this, slash that, its cool; and you can only go so far on pure talent so you also need to know your craft well. I directed tons of shorts in college and acted in a slew of non paying acting work. You just have to be prepared. Period.”

Knows Needs Wells Actors Acting Talent College Keys Periods Pure Prepared Crafts Preparation Be Prepared Shorts

Author:Jaime Zevallos

“In fact, because I am very time conscious and want to make the most of every moment, I make it a practice to remove my watch before I light the candles as if to suggest that for this brief period, my life must transcend time.”

Ifs Want Moments Facts Light Watches Practice Periods Conscious Remove Candle End Times

Author:Erica Brown

“I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write stories in another period. I only work on one thing at once, because I'm afraid that I wouldn't finish what I'd started.”

Writing Stories Novel One Thing Periods Sticks Hardcore

Author:T.C. Boyle

“Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.”

Art Jobs Periods Imitating

Author:Wendell Pierce

“I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song.”

Thinking States America Song United United States Periods Standards Songwriting United States Of America Great American Zenith

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“There aren't very many women of color in positions of power, period. Much less on television.”

Position Television Color Periods Position Of Power

Author:Gina Torres

“Some period of time later you look up and say, "That concern was right on the mark; it happened exactly as I thought it would." So that's been really helpful to recognize.”

Looks Happened Periods Concern Mark Look Up Helpful

Author:Mitchell Baker

“The press is going to have to learn anew that it's possible to work in an environment that is not so toxic and to readopt those kinds of techniques. The relationship between the press and the Clinton White House during the later period was not a healthy one. There was a lot of hostility and a lot of suspicion. This administration has done systematically what no other administration had done. They came in with a corporate mentality, an ability to stay on script that was without parallel.”

Kind Done House Ability White Environment Periods Healthy Presses Clinton Scripts Technique Administration Corporate White House Toxic Mentality Suspicion Parallels Hostility

Author:Ted Gup

“When you get new people in, you're going to have a breath of fresh air and there's going to be a window when people will decide what direction to go. It'll be determined by outside events, by the personalities that occupy those positions, and by the treatment they receive both from the press and the public, of the honeymoon period.”

People Air Events Position Personality Periods Window Breaths Presses Determined Treatment Fresh Air Honeymoon

Author:Ted Gup

“Democracy is about criticism. I didn't elect Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time. Period. The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does. And who he has at the table. And what he does to change the world - that's what's important.”

World Persons Doe Important Black President Democracy Periods Criticism Tables Changing The World What's Important Right Person Time Periods Exceptionalism

Author:Danny Glover

“I feel like you can have entertainment, and you can laugh, but during that period of time you can also think, and people should get upset. America is spending a lot of time and money pretending to be searching for people who we're not really searching for. That is enough to get someone angry.”

People Thinking Feels Should Enough America Laughing Like You Periods Angry Entertainment Spending Upset Pretending Time And Money

Author:Richard Shepard

“My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've always wanted to write about that period - in some ways to digest it for myself, something that defined me but that I didn't go through.”

Way Writing War Wanted Parent Periods My Family Died Profound Defined Affected Grandfather My Grandfather Father Died Grandfather Died

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's sort of sitting in drawing rooms.”

World Used Rooms Periods Drama Sitting Drawing Restraint Polite

Author:Clive Owen

“In science we see progress. In art there is no progress. In art the questions have always been the same. From the beginning of time till now, we are always asking the same questions. There are very few. We are looking for God, we are asking why we die, we are contemplating sex and the beauty of nature. The only thing that changes is that, in each period of questioning, we speak with the language of our time.”

Art Dies Speak Language Sex Progress Periods Asking Our Time Questioning Contemplating Nature Beauty Asking Why

Author:Christian Boltanski

“When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.”

Done Three Actors Roles Week Kings Periods Majors Lear

Author:Frank Langella

“I don't draw every day. I tend to draw intensely during certain periods of time. I draw to amuse myself on occasion, when I am bored and drawing is the only fun to be had.”

Certain Fun Periods Draws Drawing Occasions Bored

Author:David Shrigley

“Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members.”

Needs Two Important Nations Periods Members Europe Critical Engines Partnership Topics Motor Franco Two Nations

Author:Francois Hollande

“I think this is the beginning of a really cool period in music because what we've been living through has been mostly super-testosterone rock, and there's nothing wrong with testosterone but it is damn boring.”

Thinking Has Beens Rocks Periods Music Is Boring Damn Really Cool Testosterone

Author:Sam Endicott

“It was an honor to work with Samantha Morton on this Casablanca-esque, silent-film-esque, Americana photobooth Woolworth's hay day period piece of surrealism/ realism/ story time tell-tale-ism, black and white 35 mm film, washed in strange light, over this love hate tune, heartbreak song, life-goes-on lullaby, The Last Goodbye. It's a doorway into the future of the fatal past-tense. Get it?”

“Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.”

Thinking Guy Fronts Periods Standing Backgrounds Glances Scenery Think Of Me Sneak

Book:How to Build a House

Source: How to Build a House

“No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.”

Humans Heart Periods Iron Human Heart Right Place Pierce

Author:Isaac Babel

“We've fallen into a fin-de-siecle period of crisis in which people believe only the things they see right in front of them”

People Believe Fronts Periods Crisis Fallen Fins

Author:Mariko Mori

“Over a period of 11 months I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.”

Care Memories Youth Months Periods Terrible Frightening Locks Cant Traumatic Experiences

Author:Laura Dekker

“The foundation of Ontario's economy is our skilled workers and innovative companies. Our government will continue its proactive approach to partnering with business and industry, investing strategically to help companies grow and create jobs in this period of economic uncertainty.”

Helping Government Jobs Grows Company Economy Economic Industry Periods Approach Foundation Workers Investing Uncertainty Innovative Proactive Ontario Skilled Workers Partnering

Author:Brad Duguid

“Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of Upstairs Downstairs is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created.”

Thinking Wonderful Periods Drama Pie One Love Format Upstairs Marshes

Author:Ellie Kendrick

“Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time. It's sad, but it's life.”

People Soul Happened Periods Mates Soul Mate

Book:PS, I Love You

Source: PS, I Love You

“My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to grow or anything, people just started booking for me. I feel pretty lucky.”

People Feels Firsts Grows Grace Periods Lucky Netherlands

Author:Angel Olsen

“First name: Mister; middle name: period; last name T.”

Firsts Lasts Names Middle Periods

Author:Mr. T

“I've never seen myself as a documentary filmmaker. I see myself as a filmmaker, period, and I am interested in drama as well as in documentary.”

Wells Periods Drama Filmmaker Documentaries

Author:Errol Morris

“In my early thirties I was working in television as a researcher. I was really stuck for a period of five years. I got to TV when I was thirty. I hated being a music writer, and kept wondering why I couldn't be doing the exciting things that my friends were doing in television.”

Years Wonder Five Television Tvs Periods My Friends Exciting Stuck Hated Thirty Five Years Researchers Exciting Things

Author:Mary Harron

“I had long periods where I couldn't make things happen, and then periods of enormous good luck. I guess the trick is to keep going in the periods when you're not lucky, when your stars are not aligned.”

Long Happens Stars Periods Lucky Luck Things Happen Tricks Enormous Keep Going Good Luck Make Things Happen

Author:Mary Harron

“As the head of the government, it is my responsibility to make the overriding political goals and relationships more clear. Part of the reason the public didn't understand some of the reforms enacted during the past legislative period was that there was far too much talk about the details, while the general picture often remained invisible.”

Reason Government Past Political Goal Responsibility Clear Too Much Periods Details Invisible Reform

Author:Angela Merkel

“In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.”

Art Seems Artist Modern Periods Concern Innovation Modern Art

Author:Edward Hopper

“The Oval Office is a place where there's been, obviously, a lot of amazing experiences over a seven-and-a-half year period. My presidency is one where I've had to make some very tough decisions. I guess some presidencies are kind of - were real smooth, there were no real big issues. Well, that's not the way mine is.”

Way Years Wells Kind Real Bigs Decision Half Issues Mines Periods Office Tough Seven Smooth Presidency Oval Tough Decisions Amazing Experiences

Author:George W. Bush

“Our sense of optimism, our can-do spirit, that's a source of great strength in America. But when there are no limits at all and we've gone through whole periods where we think everything has gone right, that's when disaster tends to strike.”

Thinking Whole America Spirit Can Do Gone Source Periods Limits Optimism Strikes Disaster

Author:Peter Beinart

“I think you have to humble yourself before the process of starting and running a business. Only the incredibly fortunate achieve their success quickly. Most people, it takes many many years of incredible hard work, and many periods of severe poverty, and it kind of makes it all the better.”

People Thinking Years Kind Hard Running Process Poverty Achieve Hard Work Periods Incredibles Starting Humble Fortunate Severe Humble Yourself Running A Business

Author:Patrick Grant

“We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall. But classical is not - the reference is wrong, because classical on one hand refers to one period in musical history, which is Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven, which is a fine period in musical history, but it was a while ago.On the other hand, it sort of alludes to some kind of "class," which A, is not true; B, is kind of detrimental to the whole idea. Because the point is that this music is available and it's actually relatively reasonably priced.”

Kind Ideas Whole Hands Class Building Fine Periods Music Is Built Instruments Musical Available Traditional Halls Concerts Detrimental Being Played

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“There is a period of tapering when we're not in the gym quite as long to try to save our bodies, but leading up to the competition we try to keep things similar to the rest of the year.”

Trying Years Long Body Periods Competition Gym Tapering

Author:Jonathan Horton

“I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone.”

Thinking Should Long Moments Lasts Artist Loses Situation Gone Periods Songwriters Your Mom Mojo

Author:Jimmy Cliff

“I continue to write. It's just one of those things that I do. I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore and that's no good.”

Ifs Want Writing Discipline Periods Just One Chores

Author:Greg Lake

“People are mad a Donald Trump for allegedly making a joke about Megyn Kelly having her period. Trump said, 'Trust me, I know what goes on down there, because I'm a huge douche.'”

People Knows Said Huge Goes On Trump Periods Jokes Mad Trust Me Douches

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Players get to that intermediate level where they can already play pretty good, and that's kind of a dangerous period because they tend to start playing only the things that they can play, rather than the things they can't.”

Kind Play Levels Player Dangerous Periods

Author:Pat Metheny

“The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Skeptics and believers are alike. At this moment scientists and skeptics are the leading dogmatists. Advance in detail is admitted; fundamental novelty is barred. This dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure.”

“King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development.”

Men Vision Progress Century Development Kings Periods Inspired Quarters Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Countrymen Great Vision Quarter Of A Century Progress And Development

Author:Tony Blair

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