I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible.
There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.
People called me 'Slim' and 'Daddy Long Legs.' My best friend Martine named me Daddy Long Legs after she saw me running track. She was making fun of me!
The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.
You seem to be trying to ride a pony named Trouble all the way to the border.
I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.
If you're putting your name on something, it's really important to be a part of it, or else people will just do whatever they want with it. And then it's not really you, and it won't be true.
New and emerging infections keep coming back and the world needs a collective defense system, and that requires international cooperation and collaboration, in the name of global solidarity.
When I was in kindergarten, it took me like three months to learn how to spell my own name. But that's also not saying much considering I'm a terrible speller.
Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.
The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.
I do have a few personalities. When people started making a big deal out of it, I started making names for these people.
You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.
Nature, it seems, is the popular name for milliards and milliards and milliards of particles playing their infinite game of billiards and billiards and billiards.
The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name
Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision.
The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are playing well, or the Cubs, the Phillies, the big-name teams.
We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.
Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.