Cheryl Mendelson I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can’t listen to music while I write. It’s too absorbing. – Cheryl Mendelson Absorbing Quotes Bach Quotes Chamber Quotes German Quotes Lieder Quotes Listen Quotes Lots Quotes Music Quotes Opera Quotes Periods Quotes Rock Quotes Write Quotes I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked. Many books have mattered enormously to my life and work. ‘David Copperfield’ by Charles Dickens would be one of several contenders for ‘most influential.’ I first read it at 13 and have reread it dozens of times since.
InspirationalVince Lombardi Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. – Vince Lombardi
Luol Deng When I look back at 19, coming here to Chicago, some of the things that were said, some of the stuff that you deal with – at 19 years old, it’s a lot of pressure. – Luol Deng
Robert Klein But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there. – Robert Klein
Peter York In London – and forget those extra public pressures on politicians – the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn’t cut it since Big Bang in 1986, the point at which Mrs. Thatcher really started to achieve her ambition to make this country more like America – its ambition, economy, it’s very tangible measures of success. – Peter York
ChristmasGovernmentSteve Israel I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights. – Steve Israel
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