Delta Burke Quotes

I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model.

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• Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.

  

  Gary Owen
  • People
  • Hope
  • Black

• I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Me
  • Because
  • Table

• What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Love
  • Religion
  • For Her

• It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Night
  • Feel
  • Pressure

• I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Kids
  • American
  • America

• When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Voice
  • New
  • New York

• My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Walking
  • Fearless

• As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Loved
  • Bird
  • View

• I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • True
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Hair

• I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Home
  • Water
  • Rose

• Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Cool
  • Being
  • Status

• You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • God
  • Career

• I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Bike
  • Riding

• I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Good
  • Balance

• People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • People
  • School
  • Kids

• You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Fool

• There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.

  

  James Payn
  • Great
  • True
  • Small

• The best thing as a director is being able to be part of the thing that's so cool about a TV show, like running a character arc over six episodes or multiple series.

  

  Colm McCarthy
  • Character
  • Running
  • Cool

• The one thing I'm proud of as a filmmaker is that people are entitled not to like my films - that's the privilege of the public - but I think I have my own imprint.

  

  McG
  • People
  • Proud

• As a young boy, I had the usual hobbies - sports, baseball cards, model airplanes and trains. But I always had a distinct fascination with trains.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Sports
  • Boy
  • Model

• I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent language of communication, like being psychic with each other.

  

  Carmen Dell'Orefice
  • Dance
  • Model
  • Communication

• I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be a model.

  

  Delta Burke
  • Model