Lists Quotes - Page 35

• I'm an impulse buyer. I don't really go out with a list.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Buyers, Impulse

  "My life in shopping". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2007.

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• I'm the one who's dating the craft-service guy instead of the producer. Plus, if a producer is going to date a hot young thing, I'm probably not the first person on their list - the weird, quirky, funny girl.

  Whitney Cummings

  Girl, Dating, Guy

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• When I first started acting in movies - as probably a lot of naive young actors do - I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.

  Justin Bartha

  Acting, Actors, Agents

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.

  Kurt Busiek

  Character, Names, Superhero

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2001.

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• Well, you know, when you go into a restaurant, one of the scariest things is the wine list, so whenever I'm really feeling intimidated, I'll just pick a wine type, like a Chianti or Brunello or a Burgundy, and I'll pick a year that's missing and ask for that one.

  Alton Brown

  Wine, Years, Missing

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• It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

  Caprice Bourret

  Thinking, Here I Am, Arbitrage

  "My nine to five: Caprice Bourret" by Deany Judd, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

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• I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That's something I'm very proud of, actually.

  Elmer Bernstein

  Black, Proud, Way

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• I'll give you a list of a hundred ways that I'm more likely to be injured than belting around a race track with people who know what they're doing. It's not a place where I feel I'm in unnecessary danger.

  Eric Bana

  Race, People, Track

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• The difference between 'Molto Italiano' and 'The Babbo Cookbook' is that the ingredient lists in 'Molto' are about half or even a third the size. In 'Babbo,' they are very long, they are very real. That's exactly how we make them in the restaurant.

  Mario Batali

  Real, Differences, Long

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• There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea.

  Robert Ballard

  Technology, Sea, Long

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• My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that's kind of where it begins and ends. I'm open to being surprised.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Kindness, Want, Laundry

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them.

  Cat Cora

  Boys, Night, Goes On

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• Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the page as they are viewing it only to them. If you subscribe to a paid site, you can save the content. I'm not really touching the money.

  Marco Arment

  Support, Touching, Doe

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• Guys will definitely settle for women who get the joke. But a woman who can make you laugh? It's not high on a guy's must list. Perhaps it should be.

  Hank Azaria

  Laughing, Guy, Settling

  "One-Man Show: Hank Azaria". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. March 14, 2012.

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• From an app point of view, if you looked at innovation on the PC, you'd be hard pressed to find companies innovating. The list is small.

  Tim Cook

  Views, Innovation, Apps

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• You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he'd be arrested.

  Howie Carr

  Organization, House, Top 10

  "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.nbcnews.com. June 23, 2011.

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• I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.

  Ricky Jay

  Hands, Roots, Cards

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. August 12, 1998.

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• When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn't really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to?

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Jobs, Mean, Journey

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• I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

  Charles Van Doren

  Book, Facts, Figures

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• Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

  David Herbert Donald

  Might, Tests, Kind

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• Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.

  Nigel Dennis

  Needs, Shooting, Wells

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• There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.

  Trevor Dunn

  Nyc, Musician, Reason

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• I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list.

  Joel Edgerton

  Thinking, Play, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

  Jacqueline Briskin

  Writing, Successful, Numbers

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• I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun.

  Steve Forbert

  Fun, Long Ago, Boring

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