Chikuma Class Quotes

#1. Prior to going to college, I had a pretty strong accent, and that was one of the things I had to work on a lot. I went to North Carolina School of the Arts; my speech teacher ... that was one of the things we really had to work on over the years, and thankfully I think it finally worked.

Chris Parnell

#2. Forgeries are an ever-changing portrait of human desires. Each society, each generation, fakes the things it covets most

Frank Wynne

#3. I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

Renee Fleming

#4. Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?

Bob Dylan

#5. I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

Michel Faber

#6. When I'm in the middle of a book it can go up from there. When you're putting in those hours, the real world kind of fades and the world you're creating becomes almost more real to you than the outside world.

Dean Koontz

#7. The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.

Ted Cruz

#8. Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones.

Lydia Leonard

#9. Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'. If you're not growing, you're contracting. If you're not moving forward, you're moving backward.

Reid Hoffman

#10. This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself.

Jim Garrison

#11. Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write between these illuminations.

Kate Braverman

#12. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

Hamlin Garland

#13. We are working to deploy a powerful new radar network with American early warning systems,

Joe Biden

#14. I've learned some quick tricks about how to fix my hair so I can dash somewhere unexpected and still be O.K. when someone stops me to take a picture.

Mikaela Shiffrin