J. Courtney Sullivan Quotes
When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
-
We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
-
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
-
I am from the Kardashian group. We can take anything.
-
It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
-
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
-
Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
-
Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
-
The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
-
Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
-
That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
-
I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.
-
I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
-
The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.
-
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
-
In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
-
I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.
-
I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
-
I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community. There's something sort of spiritual about it in a lot of ways. It's like we're all doing this together.
-
The Spaniards are slow in their motions but strong in their attachments.
-
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
-
Be inspired to ignore their ignorant message, and feel gratitude in your heart that you are not burdened or addicted to hate, as they are.
-
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
-
When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
