Christie Hefner Quotes

What's funny in Italy may not be funny in Spain.

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• When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Sun
  • Ambition

• I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Crazy
  • Never
  • Too Much

• Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Emotions
  • Hollywood

• I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Hunger
  • Finished
  • Zombies

• I like to have something to base a role on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Like
  • Something
  • Role

• I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Success
  • Democracy

• My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • inspirational
  • Rather

• The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • True
  • Nature
  • Soul

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Character

• From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • View
  • Networking
  • Far Away

• I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Great
  • Like
  • Artist

• Language usage always has a political context.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Political
  • Always
  • Language

• The Big Five is a competition played in the University of Pennsylvania's Palestra among five Philadelphia-area Division I schools: Saint Joseph's, La Salle, Penn, Temple, and Villanova. 'The Big Five' was immensely popular, and rivalries quickly grew to intense proportions.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Popular
  • Competition
  • Big

• You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human existence, the variety of experience inherent in any community.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Experience
  • Community
  • Human

• Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Think
  • Taxes

• I've always known what I'm meant to do. The path of my life has been about discovering what I need to do to support myself as a writer.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Life
  • Support
  • Myself

• I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Better
  • Kiss

• Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant
  • Up
  • Giving

• If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

  

  Connie Nielsen
  • Life
  • God
  • Different

• I'm apparently attracted to things that are on the edge of what America really wants to watch: 'Six Feet Under,' 'Sports Night,' 'Dirty Sexy Money,' and 'Parenthood' were always struggling in the ratings. It was kind of heartbreaking not knowing if we get to come back every season.

  

  Peter Krause
  • Money
  • America
  • Night

• No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Culture
  • Psychology

• What's funny in Italy may not be funny in Spain.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • May
  • Funny