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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

    Author: A. A. Milne
   

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

    Author: A. Alfred Taubman
   

One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

    Author: A. B. Yehoshua
   

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

    Author: A. C. Benson
   

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

    Author: A. J. Liebling
   

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

    Author: Aaron Brown
   

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

    Author: Aaron Burr
   

I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

    Author: Aaron Eckhart
   

In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants.

    Author: Aaron Klug
   

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

    Author: Aaron Klug
   

Movie making is the slowest business on earth next to fossil manufacture.

    Author: Aaron Latham
   

I sing around the house, in the shower.

    Author: Aaron Neville
   

A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

    Author: Aaron Spelling
   

But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.

    Author: Aaron Spelling
   

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

    Author: Aaron Spelling
   

I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.

    Author: Aaron Spelling
   

I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.

    Author: Aaron Spelling
   

Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.

    Author: Aaron Spelling
   

Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

    Author: Aaron Spelling
   

You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

    Author: Aaron Spelling
   

You know what shows today are missing? Stars.

    Author: Aaron Spelling
   

I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

    Author: Aaron Yoo
   

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

    Author: Abdelaziz Bouteflika
   

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

    Author: Abdul Kalam
   

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

    Author: Abdul Kalam
   

People go out of their way to show the love and respect for me. It is very gratifying.

    Author: Abdul Qadeer Khan
   

I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.

    Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
   

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

    Author: Abraham Cahan
   

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

    Author: Abraham Lincoln
   

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

    Author: Abraham Lincoln
   

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

    Author: Abraham Lincoln
   

I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.

    Author: Abraham Zapruder
   

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

    Author: Abu Bakar Bashir
   

Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.

    Author: Abu Bakr
   

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

    Author: Ace Frehley
   

I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.

    Author: Ace Frehley
   

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

    Author: Ace Frehley
   

I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?

    Author: Adam Ant
   

A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

    Author: Adam Baldwin
   

You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.

    Author: Adam Baldwin
   

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.

    Author: Adam Brody
   

Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.

    Author: Adam Brody
   

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

    Author: Adam Clarke
   

But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

    Author: Adam Duritz
   

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

    Author: Adam Duritz
   

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

    Author: Adam Duritz
   

They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.

    Author: Adam Garcia
   

Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.

    Author: Adam Michnik
   

The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.

    Author: Adam Osborne
   

Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!

    Author: Adam Pascal
   

Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side.

    Author: Adam Rich
   

I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.

    Author: Adam Rickitt
   

There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners.

    Author: Adam Rickitt
   

With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.

    Author: Adam Rickitt
   

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

    Author: Adam Sandler
   

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.

    Author: Adam Sandler
   

When I'm up there, and I know the show's coming to a close, in my head I'm saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That's what I don't like so much.

    Author: Adam Sandler
   

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

    Author: Adam Savage
   

That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.

    Author: Adam Savage
   

This is the point in the show where we say, "Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?"

    Author: Adam Savage
   

Dreams grow holy put in action.

    Author: Adelaide Anne Procter
   

I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude.

    Author: Adelbert von Chamisso
   

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

    Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
   

We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.

    Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
   

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

    Author: Adlai Stevenson
   

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

    Author: Adolf Loos
   

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.

    Author: Adolph Green
   

It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous.

    Author: Adrian Edmondson
   

Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.

    Author: Adrian Lyne
   

I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down.

    Author: Adriana Lima
   

My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he's so nice. When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone.

    Author: Adriana Lima
   

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

    Author: Aeschylus
   

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

    Author: Aesop
   

Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.

    Author: Afrika Bambaataa
   

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

    Author: Agnes Smedley
   

We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.

    Author: Ahmed Yassin
   

One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.

    Author: Aimee Mann
   

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

    Author: Aisha Tyler
   

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

    Author: Aisha Tyler
   

And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.

    Author: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
   

People took part in the referendum because they were tired of the war. They are afraid of talking about it out loud, but they have shown exactly where they stand: Yes, we want peace, and we want to be a part of Russia.

    Author: Akhmad Kadyrov
   

The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.

    Author: Al Franken
   

A Democrat has to show the toughness to govern. People don't doubt that Republicans will be tough.

    Author: Al From
   

Hey, you know what, I've gotta go on that 'Letterman' show. That show is so lame.

    Author: Al Gore
   

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

    Author: Al Green
   

I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

    Author: Al Hirt
   

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

    Author: Al Lewis
   

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

    Author: Al Lopez
   

Nobody wants to see teams out of contention showcased in December and January. I'm sure this is something that will be discussed again this off-season.

    Author: Al Michaels
   

I have been blessed with working with the best in the business.

    Author: Al Roker
   

They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together.

    Author: Al Roker
   

When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know.

    Author: Al Roker
   

Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business.

    Author: Al Smith
   

Winning in my business is everything.

    Author: Al Unser
   

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

    Author: Alain de Botton
   

I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?

    Author: Alan Alda
   

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

    Author: Alan Alda
   

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.

    Author: Alan Alda
    Topics: Business

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

    Author: Alan Arkin
   

In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires.

    Author: Alan Autry
   

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