Cheyenne Jackson Quotes

I don't like to watch myself. I can't get into the story; I'm too critical.

Cheyenne Jackson

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• Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Truth
  • Forever
  • Drama

• For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Music
  • Important
  • Marriage

• I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Culture

• I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Think
  • Losing
  • Key

• I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • Person
  • Profession
  • Ambitious

• I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Time
  • Family
  • Friends

• It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Naive

• I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Food
  • Alone

• My type is really young, short, athletic, and smart. I know, you want to be with someone who's going to be your friend - yeah, yeah, yeah. I want the Adonis line, the two down the hips to the waist. And a guy has to be able to accept criticism about his clothing. I can be very particular about what I like and don't like.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Guy
  • Friend
  • Smart

• In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Ambition
  • Modern
  • Dear

• For me, good service is efficient and discreet; it's that critical balance. As soon as the client sits down, the communication flow has to start. Customers need to feel that the waiters are supervised - that there's a system in place.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Good
  • Service
  • Balance

• I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Car
  • Win
  • Bike

• The best advice I received came late, and it's this: Don't read the comments section of any story that mentions you!

  

  Tamron Hall
  • You
  • Best
  • Advice

• In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Soul
  • Spiritual

• I think I've become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are probably creepy. But I get compliments - everyone's like, 'Wow, love the 'stache, dude.'

  

  Jack Huston
  • Think
  • Man
  • Like

• All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Power
  • Historical
  • Global

• I started watching 'SNL' when I was thirteen or so; those were the Molly Shannon/Ana Gasteyer/Cheri Oteri years.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Years
  • Watching
  • Started

• People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

  

  Harper Lee
  • People
  • Pride

• It's quite simple really. Being always transcends appearance-that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or very ugly face, as determined by your bias, the surface appearances fade away until they simple no longer matter. That is why Elousia is such a wonderful name. God, who is the ground of all being, dwells in, around, and through all things-ultimately emerging as the real-and appearances that mask that reality will fall away.

  

  William P. Young
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Simple

• Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

  

  Bill Drayton
  • Vision

• My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.

  

  Jennifer Gilmore
  • Up
  • Past

• The number of times I have been declared dead is statistically insignificant,although admittedly non-zero.

  

  James Nicoll

• I think I'm bad luck for Tiger because he missed the cut in Charlotte with me. But yeah, those are two of the best players of all time. Tiger's the best player of all time in my opinion, so when he's not in the field, it's a relief because he's such a great player.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Bad

• I don't like to watch myself. I can't get into the story; I'm too critical.

  

  Cheyenne Jackson