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Most every young man either takes inspiration from his father or wishes he could. I was fortunate in that I could.
Sheldon Whitehouse
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.


Wallace Stegner
The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.
Jerry Lewis
Tags: Out Life Had
I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.
Leonard Nimoy
I cannot understand why any young man - or young woman, for that matter - would wish to undergo the painful process of disfiguring the skin with various multicolored representations of people, animals, and various symbols.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
Lynda Barry
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A woman is subject matter enough.


Claude Chabrol
Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.
Courtney Thorne-Smith
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The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.


Gordon Parks
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.


Harrison Birtwistle
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I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.


Laura Hillenbrand
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It's really important that I have a personal life.


Kelli O'Hara
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On the road, you can't really develop a personal life.


Jon Batiste
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My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.
Cory Booker
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The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.
Lupe Fiasco
Tags: Me Get Too
I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.
Margaret Spellings
George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what '1984' shows is that language can be a dirty trick.
Graham Joyce
What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style.
Russell Smith
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So we see Edward as a young man on the road and he meets a giant and he brings the giant to a circus where he meets a Miss Calloway. He sees the woman of his dreams and I am the only one who knows who she is.
Danny DeVito
Tags: Dreams Who Only