Blythe Danner Quotes

I don't give my advice unless it's asked for.

Blythe Danner

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• Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Me
  • Cooking
  • Patience

• Justice is never given; it is exacted.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Justice
  • Never
  • Given

• The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Brothers
  • Favorites

• The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Prayer
  • Something
  • Whole

• I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Enjoy
  • Would
  • Dinner

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Men
  • Waiting

• Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.

  

  Yuri Andropov
  • Everything
  • Choice
  • Possible

• When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • Society
  • Military

• I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.

  

  Usher
  • Passion
  • Baby
  • Pregnancy

• I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.

  

  Faye Resnick
  • Professional
  • Actress

• I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Team
  • Leadership

• From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • True
  • Judge
  • Perspective

• I try to win every tournament.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Win
  • Try
  • Tournament

• Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Reading
  • Joy

• Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Book
  • Doing
  • Successful

• Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Think
  • Saying
  • Equal Pay

• I do love giving advice, but I try not to forget how flawed I am as well. And how many mistakes I've made.

  

  Anna Faris
  • Giving
  • Advice

• I leave for the guidance of other revolutionaries, who may tread the path which I have trod, this advice; never treat with the enemy, never to surrender to his mercy, but to fight to a finish.

  

  Eamonn Ceannt
  • May
  • Fighting
  • Enemy

• It's now widely recognised that a diverse research group is usually stronger, more creative, and more robust and flexible. Such a group usually copes better in a downturn.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• Anybody who is really walking with the Lord is embracing the foibles and the beauties and the differences of humanity, regardless of race, color, creed, economic stature and sexual proclivity, whatever. You embrace the beauty of humanity and not be exacting and belittling about the differences.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • Humanity
  • Color
  • Walking

• It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

  

  Michael Gove
  • Brain
  • Language

• I don't give my advice unless it's asked for.

  

  Blythe Danner
  • Advice