Hotel Quotes - Page 19

• I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Rocks, Parent

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• I'm happy to report you still get nothing you don't need at Motel 6, and, therefore, you don't have to pay for it. I don't need valet parking. If I can drive the old crate 300 miles to the hotel all by myself, I can certainly handle the last nine feet to the parking space.

  Tom Bodett

  Feet, Space, Needs

  "Actually, Motel 6 Doesn't Leave the Light on for You". Interview with Kimberly D. Williams, adage.com. August 30, 2007.

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• It’s getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It’s getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.

  Helen Hunt

  Nice, Artist, Brave

  "Helen Hunt Talks Baring All in ‘The Sessions’: 'It’s getting too late in my life to care about the small things'". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. September 10, 2012.

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• I think people recognize me if I am going out to dinner or if I am staying in a hotel. They are not quite sure at first because I have grown up a lot.

  Emma Bunton

  Thinking, People, Going Out

  "Interview: Emma Bunton". www.askmen.com.

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• I don't like staying in hotels. I like to be in my own bed. San Diego as a city is really awesome. The only hard part of it for me is that I'm away from my family and my house. But as far as shooting down there, we get amazing locations, and the crew is really, really stellar down there. They are really fun.

  Kristen Bell

  Fun, Cities, House

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• Sometimes we're at hotels, and I'll answer the phone. They'll say, 'Mr. Ripa, your breakfast is coming upstairs.' And I'm like, Is my father-in-law here? But, obviously, I'm proud either way - Ripa or Consuelos.

  Mark Consuelos

  Father, Phones, Law

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• We found that our kids enjoy those simple adventures we take as a family. I'm driving, my wife's the copilot and we give one kid a choice of what they want to go do. We eat a lot of bad food and sleep in some interesting hotels.

  Mark Consuelos

  Kids, Adventure, Sleep

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• Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.

  Colbie Caillat

  Writing, Guitar, Records

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• My father was a general manager with Hyatt, so we lived in the hotel so he would be close by if there were any problems. My mum was always adamant about us not abusing it. So I still had to clean my room. Housekeeping would never come and do it.

  Dianna Agron

  Father, Rooms, Would Be

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• I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one.

  Freema Agyeman

  Believe, Solitude, Promise

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• Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.

  Elliott Carter

  War, Nice, Lunch

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• After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

  Jimmy Carr

  Night, Words Of Wisdom, Watches

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• Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I'd stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service.

  Jimmy Carr

  Luxury Hotels, Giving, Room Service

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• I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

  Lee Child

  Book, Reading, Airplane

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• In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food, and that would be all I needed.

  Ricky Jay

  Winter, Hands, Entertainment

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• Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

  Roman Coppola

  Beautiful, Dad, Home

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.

  Upamanyu Chatterjee

  Should Have, People, Bombs

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• Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?

  Upamanyu Chatterjee

  Lying, Government, Two

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• I was in California the first time I heard Michael Jackson wanted to record with me. I was, like, 'Nah, no way, he's too big, it can't be true.' Then I got a call from Michael's people at my hotel telling me he was interested. But I still wasn't believing it - I thought they were setting me up for a TV practical jokes show.

  Heavy D

  Believe, California, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.

  Andre Balazs

  Home, People

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• My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.

  Emilio Estevez

  Mother, Father, White

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• With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

  Abel Ferrara

  Writing, Rose, Fees

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 27, 2002.

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• The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

  America Ferrera

  New York, Feelings, London

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• In hell there's a big hotel where the bar just closed and the windows never opened. No phone so you can't call home, and the TV works, but the clicker is broken.

  Billy Joel

  Home, Phones, Evil

  Song: Blonde Over Blue, Album: River of Dreams, 1993

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• Dear Hotel People: We don't need a cheeseball clock-radio. WE NEED PLACES TO PLUG STUFF IN. Thank you.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Travel, People

  Twitter post from May 05, 2011

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