Marissa Jaret Winokur Quotes
We have to support each other's tired nerves, I know that sounds so Pollyanna, but really... Mommy groups can be amazing, but haven't you ever gone to one and felt like you are back in high school, totally on the outside of the 'cool kids' club? I totally have!
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
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If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
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Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'
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One of my favorites is one called 'Rory's Radio' that I wrote about my brother Jeff's best friend growing up - his name was Rory Dunigan. I dedicated my first record to my brother, who got killed in a car accident in 1999, and I really didn't have any songs on the first album about him, nothing on a personal note.
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The French view is really one of balance, I think... What French women would tell me over and over is, it's very important that no part of your life - not being a mom, not being a worker, not being a wife - overwhelms the other part.
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You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before.
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We have to support each other's tired nerves, I know that sounds so Pollyanna, but really... Mommy groups can be amazing, but haven't you ever gone to one and felt like you are back in high school, totally on the outside of the 'cool kids' club? I totally have!
