Donald Byrd Quotes
Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.
Quotes to Explore
-
Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.
-
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
-
My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
-
Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
-
Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
-
I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
-
It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
-
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
-
The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
-
I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.
-
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
-
Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
-
No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.
-
My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.
-
Truth is a tendency.
-
When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.
-
A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
-
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
-
If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.
-
Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
-
War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.
-
Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.
