Chris Messina Quotes

'The Mindy Project' is really best when you're loose, and we improvise a lot, and that's what's best.

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• The future is much like the present, only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Future
  • Present
  • Like

• That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Love
  • Fall

• Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Love
  • She

• Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Small
  • Breathing
  • Charm

• My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Great
  • Mother

• Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Equal

• I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Taken
  • Effort
  • Messy

• Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Money
  • Art
  • Way

• The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.

  

  Ian Rush
  • I Can
  • Cook
  • Welsh

• This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • You
  • Class
  • Lower Class

• Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Play

• I joined forces with the American Cancer Society in 2010 as a spokesperson for the N.F.L.'s 'A Crucial Catch' campaign, which benefits the American Cancer Society. This was important to me because I lost my mother to breast cancer, and I have always felt a strong commitment to doing all I can to fight this disease.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Important
  • American
  • Mother

• The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Rest

• We’re one team. One American family. When any member of our family is suffering, we’ve got to be there for each other. ... We have to keep on uniting as one team. As one people. As one nation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Family
  • American

• I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • God
  • Death

• The mosquito is an automaton. It can afford to be nothing else.

  

  E. O. Wilson

• The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world.

  

  Augusto Pinochet
  • People
  • World
  • History

• I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and write one specific kind of book, but to write the kind of books you love to read.

  

  Chris Bohjalian
  • Time
  • Different
  • Important

• The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Genius
  • Sympathy
  • Human Nature

• I've had many ups and downs before, and I think it's always darkest before dawn.

  

  Angelique Kerber

• My brain has a weird way of turning pressure into other things. I make a point to myself of shrugging it off - of going the other way and doing something for myself, wanting to do something better. For example, I know that I could have made 'Lonerism 2.0' in a day, but it wouldn't have satisfied me.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Brain
  • Weird

• The minimum wage should be a living wage.

  

  Jon Ossoff

• 'The Mindy Project' is really best when you're loose, and we improvise a lot, and that's what's best.

  

  Chris Messina