Chelan Simmons Quotes

When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank for me, but I just thought it was this fun thing that I was so excited to do. You got to be on the set and get a little bit of makeup and be on camera.

Chelan Simmons

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• I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Long
  • Progress
  • Boy

• I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Important
  • Live
  • Culture

• I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Green
  • Eat
  • Vegetables

• It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Nice
  • Year
  • Achievement

• I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Creativity

• I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Value
  • Things
  • Human

• I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Up
  • Color
  • Texas

• The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Industry
  • Publishing

• My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Style
  • Dresses
  • Girly

• If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • God
  • Money
  • Knows

• Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • Money
  • Today

• During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Up
  • Black

• My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Writing
  • Happy

• There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Good
  • Political

• I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Love
  • Love Is

• The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Operations
  • Quarter
  • Washing

• I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Small
  • Eyes
  • Drawing

• Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Trying
  • Stock
  • Winner

• I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• India buzzes for its players and that makes you feel special.

  

  Kevin Pietersen

• I love the big, like, basketball sweats... and I only wear vintage T-shirts to bed, because I like the super-thin ones.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Basketball

• Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.

  

  Carmen Ejogo
  • Good

• You should always use your Nobel prize money to buy property.

  

  John Kendrew
  • Money

• When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank for me, but I just thought it was this fun thing that I was so excited to do. You got to be on the set and get a little bit of makeup and be on camera.

  

  Chelan Simmons
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Parents