Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Buick

Recently, especially with the announcement of the heart institute that's going to be opening in 2007, we've had a whole new wave of outstanding scientists and physicians attracted here to work with the team that was already in place.

Jerry Leiber

Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.'

Tom Donohue

Roberts has attracted broad, bipartisan support for his fairness, keen intellect, open-mindedness, and judicious practice of the law, ... He is highly regarded and well respected by the legal and business communities.

Arthur Penn

I think there's a quality of passion to the American actor. I'm certainly attracted to it, and I like to hope that underscoring it is a characteristic of my work. That quality is certainly also present in some British actors, but I tend to feel the mechanical and intellectual process is dominant in the British.

Kathy Sierra

Just by going out and singing our language, it has really attracted a lot of kids to come and join this choir,

Philip Hoffman

That's what attracted me to it. I wasn't interested in doing it if it was just going to be about trying to portray Truman Capote and if I could be successful or not. It really was about the inevitability of a tragedy unfolding.

Ned Riley

I think some buyers have actually been attracted to the fact that the market has been down so big (this week) even though there may be extensive damage as a result of Rita. Clearly people are concluding things will continue to go on and that the economy is resilient enough to take another blow,

James Nesbitt

Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.

Lykke Li

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

Dylan Penn

My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.

James Wolcott

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.

JJ Abrams

I'm really happy that I didn't see Capote until after we wrapped because I probably just would have been daunted because he was so remarkable in that movie.

Bennett Miller

Capote was an enormously and dangerously ambitious, talented, conflicted guy who really concealed himself from the public. He was at once a very public figure and a very private figure. And this is a movie that sort of peels back the public mask and gets into the heart of darkness.

Bennett Miller

Capote is one of those people who represents something larger than himself. I think that his ambition, his kind of success, and the downfall that followed are very contemporary.

Dan Futterman

Capote had these dueling motivations for being involved with this guy. He genuinely was fascinated with (Perry Smith), but he also saw him as a ticket to writing this great book.

Bennett Miller

It was the perfect gift for Perry, who saw himself, like Thoreau, as an outsider persecuted by society. It made him feel good about himself, which is just what Capote wanted.

Philip Hoffman

Somebody said the other day, at the end of the movie, you feel like Capote committed a crime, and that's exactly right. That's why the film works so well. You really have this sense that he's the one who committed the crime, and I think deep down inside, that's how he felt, too. That's something he could never come to terms with.

Adriano Galliani

Real Madrid are interested in him but I don't know if there have been any contacts.

Phil Brown

Paulo would be one we are interested in but not at the moment.

R. Robinson

Our weakness is inexperience. We have no seniors and we've never been here before. I'll be interested to see how we come out and play.

Bill Shaw

We've told all judges we're not interested in their money, we don't want it. We want the poles removed.

Dan Hicks

I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.

Steve Ford

Jason is someone we like and someone we were interested in during the summer before he did his shoulder.

Bill Gleason

Little old ladies were terrified. At least those not interested in baseball.

Mayor Klanderud

I think one of the things we're interested in looking at is, we've talked about some of the contractors providing shuttle service for their workers.

Colin Wood

I thought he was very much interested in talking about his problems rather than the problems of the industry.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.

Don Cornelius

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

E. Hicks

We don't like the media. They're portraying him as a selfish person.

Shekhar Kapur

Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.

Lili Taylor

My thing is that anybody's interesting if you go into the complexities. That's my problem with the whore. We've seen the whore, obviously, two-dimensionally, one-dimensionally. But if we're truly going to portray a whore in a complicated light, then I'm interested.

Richard Carroll

Chimps are portrayed as the super-ape and gorillas are the big brutes in the forest.

Pierce Brosnan

I'd my own insecurities while portraying the role of James Bond.

Barry Mann

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

B. R. Ambedkar

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Bill Condon

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

Bill Crawford

The most successful form of correction is when the "other" feels informed versus chastised.

Bill Crawford

One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment.

Bill Cosby

You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.

Carrie Snow

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Carrie Underwood

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Carl Sagan

Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

Charles Colson

To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.

Charles Peguy

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

Carroll Quigley

I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom

Carol Burnett

Comedy = tragedy + time.

Alan Cumming

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

Edward Abbey

A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

Aristotle

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Tristan Taylor

When the tragedy first happened, I wished there was a way I could go there and help.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

Gerald Clarke

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.

Tom Connor

Welcome to The Truman Show . There's a movie, folks, and we're in it.

James Sanders

We need to tell the whole Truman story in Independence.

Douglas McGrath

It's a movie about the author, Truman Capote,

Lord Mountbatten

I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.

Kanye West

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

Truman Capote

Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.

Joseph Epstein

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

John Hull

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

Wilson Alvarez

I'm here trying to do it one more time. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my wife. I'm doing it for my teammates. So they can all say you've still got it.

Bebe Neuwirth

Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.

Beck

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

Beck

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.

B. B. King

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

Billy Corgan

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

Billy Corgan

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.