Irene Cara Escalera (Irene Cara) Quotes

I liked performing, but not the struggle.

Irene Cara Escalera

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• Geffen was never supportive of the band.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Band
  • Never
  • Supportive

• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Word
  • Curiosity
  • Governing

• Money? I lost all taste for it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Taste

• I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Perfect
  • Laugh

• I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Money
  • Wife
  • Foundation

• It's true that most people in the trans community don't have the incredible wealth and privilege that Caitlyn does. I don't think that, in any way, diminishes her struggle in her own transitioning.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • True
  • Community

• Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Fun
  • Away
  • Stepping

• I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • See
  • Paint
  • Therapist

• I am fine playing 'Law & Order' and even the 'Jurassic' movies to be straight up, as far as the characters being portrayed there, but I never want to stay in straight-up land too long. I always wanted to do something where the character's world gets to be explored.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • World
  • Character
  • Law

• Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Death

• They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • Depression

• Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

  

  Aleister Crowley

• Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true.

  

  David A. Adler
  • True
  • Dream

• Art, that great undogmatized church.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Great
  • Art
  • Church

• I wouldn't want anyone to think that work is the major thing in my life.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Life
  • Work

• I couldn't possibly have any regrets, because I've been very lucky, I've been celebrated, and I've survived. I couldn't have one single regret. That would be absurd.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Single
  • Regret

• Let me get a sip of water here...you figure this stuff is safe to drink? audience yells 'No' Actually, I don't care, I drink it anyway. You know why? 'Cause I'm an American and I expect a little cancer in my food and water. I'm a loyal American and I'm not happy unless I let government and industry poison me a little bit every day.

  

  George Carlin
  • Why
  • American
  • Happy

• Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Remember
  • Hope
  • Struggle

• My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Life
  • Struggle
  • Balance

• During the shoot, when you're not at work, you're learning lines for the next shoot, and that can be all-consuming.

  

  Martin Henderson
  • Work
  • Learning

• Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.

  

  Alice James
  • Perfect
  • Struggle
  • Attitude

• I liked performing, but not the struggle.

  

  Irene Cara Escalera
  • Struggle
  • Performing