Kitty Carlisle Quotes

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

Kitty Carlisle

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• I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Country
  • Parents
  • Reason

• If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • May
  • Help

• 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

• My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • Love
  • Football
  • Sports

• The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Player

• If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Car

• I had great stats in my career, you know, but really, you want to win.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Great
  • Want
  • Career

• I owe everything to France.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Everything
  • France
  • Owe

• I don't believe in post-racial or post-gay or post-anything, but I do think within a certain group of friends, what matters less is the specificities of race and sexuality, and what matters more is the shared experience, shared language and shared cultural touch points.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Friends

• It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Art

• I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character, but I can understand a bit where they've come from.'

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Trying
  • Character

• Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Live
  • Think

• When I was back to 100 per cent fitness, I was able to show what I was capable of. I like to think I will bring a freshness into the Euros, and now that I am captain, I am going to do my best to take responsibility.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Responsibility
  • Fitness
  • Capable

• If Barack Obama's campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed. Hillary Clinton has worn the traditional clothing of countries she has visited and had those photos published widely.

  

  Maggie Williams
  • She
  • Him
  • Clothing

• Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Book
  • Being
  • Reporting

• The rage was in me, and if it wasn't for the rage, then I wouldn't know how to be calm. They feed off of each other. Just like when Malcolm X fed off Martin Luther King. They needed each other.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Know
  • Calm
  • Needed

• Signs are taken for wonders. 'We would see a sign!'The word within a word, unable to speak a word,Swaddled with darkness.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Taken

• That is the most stupid thing yet. I tell you that I could despair of human intelligence when I see what can exist in men’s minds.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Men
  • Stupid

• On red carpets, as people throw questions at you, you try and answer as quickly as possible.

  

  Chris Pine
  • People
  • Red

• I really care about what I put out, and probably more than the fans care. At times, I think I over-care. But I just know that the body of work has such a high standard that it's kind of like, in my own head, I need to at least match it if not get over that, so that's the challenge.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • Work
  • High
  • Challenge

• I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Good
  • Suffering

• I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

  

  Kitty Carlisle