#amount

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#amount #certain #creative #good #make

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#amount #composers #develop #expect #goodly

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#bitterness #certain #fire #much #someone

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid. ↗

— John Spratt

#amount #bottom #bottom line #cut #cuts

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#baseball #could #dream #money #opinion

What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#best #chance #crowe #did #does

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#any #anyone #doing #moment #provided

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#amount #around #bustle #enormous #evil

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody. ↗

— David Bowie

#am #amount #backing #everybody #extraordinary

What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully. ↗

— Jo Brand

#already #any #been #did #festival