I didn’t really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn’t afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice. Meryl Streep Read Quote
I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet. America Ferrera Read Quote
I definitely have had my down times and also have had my times of being very, very unemployed. Vincent Rodriguez III Read Quote
The Chinese are saving like mad, but they are not getting a very good return on their savings. Edward C. Prescott Read Quote
Sportswriting is fascinating – descriptions of the opponents and the details of an event in which someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. Life is much longer and more complicated, and the outcomes are less clear-cut. Gilda Radner Read Quote
Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. Oliver Goldsmith Read Quote
After ‘The Wonder Years,’ I ended up having a voiceover career, which was something I never even knew was possible. But after the character I was playing on ‘The Wonder Years,’ people said, ‘Oh, would you like to do a Burger King thing? And there’s a 7 Up thing…’ And then I got to do ‘Dilbert.’ I think my voice kind of fit for that. Daniel Stern Read Quote
Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking. Nelson A. Miles Read Quote
I was in a form of a prison: not necessarily with bars, but I was locked to that machine three days a week, and I couldn’t plan work, I couldn’t plan vacations, I couldn’t plan dinner, I couldn’t plan homework, I couldn’t plan nothing because at the end of the day, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I had to be at dialysis. Grizz Chapman Read Quote
Everybody has parents. As a dramatist, whenever you write a character, you must write their parents as well, even if the parents aren’t there. Mark O'Donnell Read Quote
