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What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.
Gary Ross

Great, Big, Endure

Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She's the boss; Liz Lemon just works here.
Rob Sheffield

Rock, Here, She

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.
Brooke Burke

Love, Live, Energy

I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.
Brooke Burke

Family, Women, Find

You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
Nathan Fillion

Nature, Money, Art

Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
Jeff Goodell

Today, Energy, House

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.
Jaron Lanier

Wisdom, Design, Single

We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.
Mitch Daniels

Life, Government, Around

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.
Mitch Daniels

Hope, Government, Big

There's a certain confidence that comes with being sure about the way the world works.
John Legend

Confidence, Sure

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
Naguib Mahfouz

Forget, Wish, Talk

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
Naguib Mahfouz

Seems, Effect, Literary

People only look at me as a Beatle, but my friends look at me as a whole person. That's how life works, but it's not bugging me anymore.
Ringo Starr

Life, Person, Friends

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
Dimitri Shostakovich

Creative, Artist, Next

There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
Idris Elba

Mine, Networking

If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!
Joyce Maynard

Life, Work, Experience

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.
John Bradshaw

Passion, Find, Energy

There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.
Larry Wall

Time, Done, Plan

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.
Richard Russo

Faith, Trust, Find

In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock.
Mike Wallace

Best, Rock, Made

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.
Andy Goldsworthy

Done, City, Side

At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.
Wilbur Smith

Age, Best, Mother

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.
Renee Fleming

Colleagues, Envious, Sang

I think they should take everyone who works for The National Enquirer and the Star, and everyone who works for Us Weekly, and put them all to work looking for terrorists. I think they would find the terrorists. All of them. It would be genius!
Brittany Murphy

Work, Find, Put

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.
Robert Smithson

Art, Through, Seen

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.
B. B. King

Heart, Guitar, Doctor

Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.
Martin Gore

Music, Boring, Until

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.
Tommy Lee Jones

Faith, Real, Sometimes

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
Alexei Sayle

Death, Try, Comic

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
Alexei Sayle

Death, Try, Comic

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