Wonderful Quotes - Page 40

• I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.

  Abbey Lincoln

  People, Looks, Cabinets

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• If I did not have my wife, I wouldn't be married, I wouldn't have the life that I have and I wouldn't have my wonderful baby boy who's not a baby anymore - he's going to be eight-years-old.

  Brian Littrell

  Baby, Boys, Eight

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• Danity Kane' was a wonderful group, and like all things, nothing is forever. We had a great run and we were very successful.

  Aubrey O'Day

  Running, Successful, Forever

  "Aubrey O'Day 'would never say no' to Danity Kane reunion" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. February 24, 2009.

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• Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Kids, Mouths, Sometimes

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• My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies.

  Jim Parsons

  Character, Choices, Roles

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

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• It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different.

  Regis Philbin

  Morning, Crazy, Mean

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• It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause you're in a vacuum when you're on a TV show. You see the response online, you read about it and all of that, but actually to be live and have that many thousands of fans come out, it's really wonderful.

  Wendell Pierce

  Tv Shows, People, Vacuums

  "Wendell Pierce: Everyone's Favorite Fake Trombone Player". Interview with Patrick Jarenwattananon, www.npr.org. July 4, 2011.

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• Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most disturbing performance he ever did, when he falls apart and when he breaks down.

  David O. Russell

  Fall, Life Is, Breaking Down

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• Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Half, Mouths, Eating

  "HoneyLine: Diet Should be a Four Letter Word" by Gabrielle Reece, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2009.

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• I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I'd gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.

  Lily Rabe

  School, People, Gone

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

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• I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.

  Martha Reeves

  School, People, Training

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• One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.

  Alana Stewart

  Forever, Lasts, Cases

  "Is ‘I Do’ Supposed To Be Forever?" by Alana Stewart, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2013.

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• Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.

  Lea Seydoux

  Boss, Just Friends, Actors

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• My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!

  Brett Somers

  Musical, Doe, Wonderful Person

  "Somers in the City". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. July 3, 2003.

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• Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Mother, Inspiration, Writing

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• The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Heart, Broken

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.72, Hoover Press

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• The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mean, Writing, Fire

  "Why Write?" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. October 15, 2007.

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• As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Space, Mind

  "Thinking on Her Feet / Author Rebecca Solnit wrote a book about walking -- while on the move" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 02, 2000.

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• Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.

  Regina Spektor

  Phones, Might, Phone Calls

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

  Meg Tilly

  Children, Thinking, Important

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• As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.

  Tate Taylor

  Writing, Character, Gray Matter

  "'The Help' co-star Octavia Spencer and writer/director Tate Taylor". Interview with Matt Pais, www.latimes.com. August 7, 2011.

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• I think you get to a point where you watch something just to enjoy it. I don't think it's really done so that you're supposed to feel, Oh, he's the most wonderful drummer. I think the whole lot is what's more enjoyable.

  Charlie Watts

  Thinking, Watches, Done

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• I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.

  Eli Wallach

  Actors, Brando

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

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• That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song.

  Margaret Whiting

  Song, Growing Up, Challenges

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