How to Work a Room, 25th Anniversary Edition by Susan RoAne

Author:Susan RoAne
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780062295354
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-12-12T05:00:00+00:00

QUIPS, QUOTES AND COMMENTS COLLECTION

“Only dull women live in immaculate homes.”

—A guest on a TV talk show

“Sometimes the thing that comes around the corner is better than what’s planned.”

—Actor Robert Duvall on Sunday Morning

“There’s no room in my head for poetry because it’s full of . . . passwords.”

—Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report

“They say my show is being ‘re-purposed.’ If that’s true, I want to be re-paid!”

—Ellen DeGeneres at a National Association of Television Program Executives convention

“If I take ginkgo, I can remember to take my Viagra.”

—Harrison Ford, the Actors Studio

“The parts that didn’t put me to sleep . . . bored me to death.”

—Ira Rosenberg, assessment of Chariots of Fire

“When we forget, we open the door for repetition.”

—Simon Wiesenthal

“I’m not a magician. It’s a comb, not a wand!”

—Tracy Mazza, hairstylist, upon being informed by a hairstyling client that she now wanted to have curly hair

“Any play that can be described in one sentence should be one sentence long.”

—Edward Albee

“The thing about a moral compass—if you take it out and look at it from time to time, you don’t have to wait for history to tell you you were going in the wrong direction.”

—Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

“When I was your age, television was called . . . books.”

—“Grandfather” Peter Falk to grandson in The Princess Bride

“If you’re not appearing, you’re disappearing.”

—Art Blakely of Jazz Messengers

“I rarely got in trouble for what I did—but always for what I said.”

—Will Smith, the Actors Studio

“Caution is a virtue; self-interest is not.”

—Countess Crawley (Dame Maggie Smith), Downton Abbey

“If you’re going to have peer pressure, pick better peers.”

—Comedian Lewis Black at a book signing

“She knows how to engage people in a few split seconds from meeting them.”

—Prince William about his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth

“No one I know reads what I write. Thank heavens for you strangers.”

—NPR’s Sarah Vowell, at a book signing, aired on Bookspan TV

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